The four baby turtles at the Philadelphia Zoo now have names. The results are in, and they are names you will probably recognize. Meet Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia, named after the main ...
LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died.
Gramma passed away on Nov. 20, according to the San Diego Zoo. Two World Wars, two pandemics and more than 20 U.S. presidents. That is a snippet of what Gramma, a 141-year-old Galapagos tortoise at ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The San Diego Zoo announced on Friday via an Instagram post that Gramma, the beloved Galápagos tortoise, has died. Gramma arrived at the San Diego Zoo between 1928 and 1931 as part ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Every morning, Brett Desser climbs the stairs of her Jacksonville home to wake someone special. “Scooter!” she says as she goes up to the second floor. It’s not a dog pawing at ...
For decades, the instrumental band Tortoise was the face of the genre known as “post rock.” The catch-all term emerged in the late 1990s to describe music that existed in the gaps between rock and ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C. (Tortoise Capital), a fund manager focused on energy investing, today announced the completion of the merger between Tortoise ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A pair of tortoises taken more than two weeks ago from the Indianapolis Zoo have been found Tuesday afternoon a county away in a park in the Madison County town of Pendleton. A ...
The theft occurred sometime between Oct. 11 and Oct. 12, police said. Two critically endangered tortoises reported stolen from the Indianapolis Zoo have been safely recovered, zoo officials announced ...