There are few things more tragic than the extinction of an entire species, but the end of the Pinta Island tortoise hits ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In the following century, conservationists set out to restore the Galápagos giant tortoise on Española—and the island ecosystem. They began eradicating the introduced species, and capturing Española’s ...

The Accidental Arrival That Changed Everything The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent.

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 tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century.

The “fantastic giant tortoise” – a rare Galapagos species with a huge, flared shell – has only been identified once, more than a century ago, in 1906. It’s since widely been considered extinct. But ...

KPRC 2 has proudly partnered with the Houston Zoo for several years to cover the Zoo’s conservation work around the globe and to explain how Houstonians make the wildlife saving work possible. In ...

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I quickly splash back into the water from the edge of the panga (or dinghy) where I was taking a break from snorkeling. My wetsuit is only half-zipped, but I quickly swim the 30 or so feet to where my ...