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Gramma, a 141-year-old Galapagos tortoise and the San Diego Zoo’s oldest resident, has died. She came from the Bronx Zoo nearly a century ago and was known as the "Queen of the Zoo." Visitors and ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show ...