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 ...

Turns out the Pinta Island tortoise, thought to be extinct with the passing of Lonesome George in 2012, is not totally lost. Dr. James Gibbs, a professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...

A DNA analysis of a tortoise named Fernanda confirms she is closely related to an animal last spotted in the wild in 1906. Reading time 3 minutes A presumed-extinct giant tortoise of the Galápagos ...

Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island tortoise, pictured seen at Galapagos National Park's breeding center in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz island, in 2008. Famed giant tortoise Lonesome George has ...

Shop the $1 Sales Rack at Buffalo Exchange this Saturday, April 19th and help the Pinta Tortoise. Lonesome George is lonely again this Earth Day. Lonesome George is the very last of his kind, the ...

The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away on Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement. Estimated to be more than 100-years-old, the ...

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LIMA, Peru — Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his species after all. Researchers say they ...

When a giant tortoise named Lonesome George died, his kind, the Pinta Island tortoises of the Galapagos, suffered the same fate as the unfortunate dodo bird: Both bird and tortoise were wiped off ...

"Many people ask why we don’t give him Viagra, but we need to let nature take its course." --Fausto Llerena, caretaker of the nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise named Lonesome George. George, a ...

LIMA, Peru - Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his species after all. Researchers say they ...