Simón Bolívar, the hero of the Latin American wars of independence, dreamed of South America becoming a single great power. After defeating Spain in 1821, Bolívar established Gran Colombia with Bogotá ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

Unique evolutionary lab: Isolation, volcanic activity, and converging ocean currents have created conditions for rapid and unusual evolution in Galápagos wildlife. Science meets conservation: DNA ...

Over the phone, Donato instructed the team to keep the tortoise’s exposed soft tissue damp by rinsing the shell with saline ...