Scientists have discovered a species of Galapagos tortoise that hasn’t been seen for 115 years, and was presumed extinct. DNA tests have confirmed that a specimen found in 2019 is indeed a long-lost ...

Scientists have found a giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands from a species thought to have gone extinct more than 100 years ago. Genetic tests match the single female tortoise to the species ...

New genetic research has found that the Galapagos giant tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus is not extinct. An international research team sequenced the genome of a the only known specimen of the ...

A giant tortoise species thought to be extinct has been found living on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. The discovery marks the first time researchers have located a Fernandina Island tortoise ...

The giant tortoise, or Chelonoidis phantasticus, has been named Fern. And now the search is on for a mate for Fern to save her species. A 100-year-old female giant tortoise has been found on ...

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A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador’s government. The last known time a ...

A species of tortoise long believed extinct has been found alive and well on the Galápagos Islands. The reptile, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified ...

The search is on for a mate for a giant tortoise thought to be extinct a century ago. Earlier this week, scientists at Yale University confirmed a giant female tortoise found in the Galapagos Islands ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A volcano on an ...