Scientists say a tortoise discovered in 2019 on the Galapagos Islands belongs to a species considered extinct more than 100 years ago. The single female tortoise belongs to the species Chelonoidis ...
It's the reptilian feel-good story of the year: A species of giant tortoise thought to be extinct for 150 years turns out to be alive and living on an even more remote island than the one from which ...
Fossil tortoise at the Central Natural Science Collections at MLU. Credit: Markus Scholz / MLU The evolution of giant tortoises might not be linked to islands, as has previously been thought. In a ...