Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sending Galapagos tortoises, including Gramma, to zoos across the United States was part of early efforts to preserve the species ...

Gramma, the beloved Galapagos tortoise who lived at the San Diego Zoo for nearly a century, has died on Nov. 20. She was (about) 141. The zoo's care team "made the compassionate and exceptionally ...