Galápagos giant tortoises are known for reaching impressive sizes. One such reptile's massive measurements blew even his ...

Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador announced Lonesome George, a giant tortoise believed to be the last of its subspecies, has died. Scientists estimate he was about 100 years old.

George was about 14 years old and his name was derived from the Pinta Island Galapagos tortoise, “Lonesome George,” also the last of its species. The last known Achatinella apexfulva in the ...

The Galapagos tortoise is one of the most iconic reptiles ... subspecies is the Pinta Island tortoise, made famous by Lonesome George, the last known individual of his kind. Tortoise populations ...

Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found ... the park ranger who for 40 years looked after Lonesome George, the iconic last tortoise of his Pinta species, who died in 2012.

The ecology students just missed seeing the Galapagos Islands' best-known resident, a giant tortoise called Lonesome George. He died in June last year, aged more than 100, the month before the ...

Within the route lies the Fausto Llerena Giant Tortoise Breeding ... process in the United States, Lonesome George made his final journey back to the Galapagos in 2017, standing as a perpetual ...

When 100-year-old giant tortoise Lonesome George died in 2012, the world thought his species was lost forever. We went to the Galápagos Islands looking for ‘extinct’ tortoises – and we ...