UC Santa Cruz leaders last week formally recognized the university’s burgeoning relationship with the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) through the signing of a memorandum of ...

"Some of the tortoises on Santa Cruz Island today were alive when [Abraham] Lincoln was born. So 1800 sounds like a long time ago, but it's not in the lifetime of a tortoise." Although Western Santa ...

In a theater decided by air power, join us as we delve into the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific War: the crucial Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the ...

A Galapagos tortoise is seen at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in Ecuador in this Nov. 11, 2008, file photo unrelated to the story. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) PHILADELPHIA ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...

A notorious California killer has been named as a suspect in the 1976 murder of a woman in Aptos, the small seaside town bordering Santa Cruz. In May 1976, Karen Percifield, 25, was in ...

the largest living tortoise species and a critically endangered species native to the Santa Cruz Island of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. It's the first time the Pennsylvania zoo has welcomed ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) ...