SAN ANTONIO – Aldabra tortoises — one of the largest tortoise species in the world — now call SeaWorld San Antonio home. SeaWorld San Antonio said Tuesday that the new exhibit, called Aldabra Island, ...

SeaWorld San Antonio announced late last week that it is opening a new attraction, Aldabra Island. The island will serve as a habitat for the Aldabra giant tortoise, one of the world’s largest land ...

SAN ANTONIO – One of the largest tortoise species in the world will soon call SeaWorld San Antonio home. The Aldabra tortoise is found naturally on Aldabra Island, one of the Seychelles islands in the ...

Woodland Park Zoo is redesigning its Family Farm into Wild Encounters, featuring new up-close animal experiences, a lorikeet ...

Aldabra's raised atoll shoreline: From 1960 to 2011, 24% of the shoreline changed at a rate of 25 cm/ yr, the lagoon shoreline changed at 32 cm/yr and the ocean shoreline changed at 15 cm/yr.

Today, Aldabra Atoll, an island in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and Tanzania, is a predator-free paradise for more than 100,000 giant tortoises. Gone are the seafarers who over-hunted them to near ...

They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms – Aldabra giant tortoises. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now decoded the genome of Aldabrachelys gigantea, one of ...

Little Dot, an Aldabra giant tortoise estimated to be born in 1936, is one of the five giant tortoises going on display at the Indianapolis Zoo this weekend. While the tortoises’ permanent habitat is ...

Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Seychelles Island Foundation, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco and the Institut Océanographique de Monaco on 25 October 2022, which aims to ...