If there's a giant tortoise heaven, Lonesome George is lonesome no more. The century-old giant tortoise was found dead in his corral Sunday at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz ...

Lonesome George, a Pinta Island subspecies of Galápagos giant tortoise believed to be the last of his kind, died on Sunday, June 24. Scientists have made countless and ultimately unsuccessful ...

(AP) QUITO, Ecuador - The beloved Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George will remain a tourist attraction even in death. Ecuador's environment minister says the reptile that ...

The future of Lonesome George's species is less certain. The expedition captured one male and one female tortoise with high genetic potential—the Adam and Eve of a breeding program for Pinta ...

Lonesome George, the only living member of a subspecies of giant tortoise, died last weekend at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Linda Cayot, tortoise conservationist and scientific advisor to ...

Lonesome George, the last surviving Pinta Island giant tortoise, has died at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Scientists believe he was more than 100 years old. Staff at the Galapagos National ...

Lonesome George was a celebrity tortoise. Millions of humans made the pilgrimage to see him while he lived, and his death was international news. Why? He wasn't particularly large for a Galapagos ...

Lonesome George was discovered on the Galapagos islands in 1971 and was ... where taxidermists set about preserving the giant tortoise for posterity. The preservation effort, which cost upwards ...

The world-famous Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George, the last known specimen of his kind, will be preserved by a team of taxidermists in New York, the American Museum of Natural History announced ...

QUITO, Ecuador – The giant tortoise Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to produce offspring made him a symbol of disappearing species, was found dead on Sunday, officials at the Galapagos ...

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