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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

He is expected to return to the Islands he once called home in early 2020. A giant tortoise thought to have gone extinct 112 years ago has been rediscovered on the Galapagos' Fernandina Island.

Scientists identified the tortoise as the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, or the species Chelonoidis phantasticus. “One of the greatest mysteries in Galapagos has been the Fernandina Island Giant ...

He added the series of expeditions to Fernandina Island to search for more tortoises would begin in September 2021. A photo of Fern, relative of the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, from 2019.

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.