A presumed-extinct giant tortoise of the Galápagos Islands was found alive in 2019, and a new DNA study confirms the female tortoise is the same species as an animal collected over a century ago ...

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 ...

A single female of the Fernandina Island tortoise species that was thought to be extinct for a century has been found in the Galapagos Islands. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

A single giant female tortoise was discovered in 2019 on Fernandina Island, an active volcano in the Galápagos Islands that's considered by some to be the largest pristine island on earth.

An international research team sequenced the genome of a the only known specimen of the Fernandina Island Galapagos giant tortoise found in 1906 and compared it with that of a female tortoise that ...

When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos, researchers were shocked. Posted 10:31 p.m. Jun 10, 2022 — Updated 10:31 p.m ...

The female tortoise, who is believed to be over 100 years old, is currently in a breeding center on Santa Cruz Island. Scientists hope to find her a mate to revive the species .

A single giant female tortoise was discovered in 2019 on Fernandina Island, an active volcano in the Galápagos Islands that's considered by some to be the largest pristine island on earth.

In the 1960s, there were reports of tortoise scat on Fernandina Island, though those alleged sightings were “tenuous at best,” researchers told The Washington Post.