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 ...

A 100-year-old female giant tortoise has been found on Fernandina Island in the Galápagos that was thought for more than 112 years to have gone extinct. Scientists at Yale University confirmed ...

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 ...

CNN — When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos, researchers were shocked. Previously, only one other tortoise, a large ...

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.

The discovery marks the first time researchers have located a Fernandina Island tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus) in more than a century. Biologists found the tortoise, dubbed Fernanda, on the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Tortoise scats have been spotted on the island as recently as 2014. Much of Fernandina has yet to be explored because extensive fields of lava prevent anyone from reaching its interior.