Each day, 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct. Despite these numbers, it is rare to watch a species cease to exist in ...

Syracuse, NY - For 10 weeks this summer, Elizabeth Hunter lived among sea lions, finches and tortoises on the uninhabited island of Pinta, one of the Galapagos Islands. Hunter, a State University ...

"Lonesome George," a giant Galapagos tortoise and conservation icon long thought to be the sole survivor of his species, may not be alone for much longer, according to a multinational team of ...

An extinct species of Galapagos tortoise, whose last living example died in 2012 at age 100, may be resurrected with the genetic help of some close relatives, scientists say. When the iconic tortoise ...

"Many people ask why we don’t give him Viagra, but we need to let nature take its course." RELATED: One of the Rarest Creatures in the World Is Now Dead --Fausto Llerena, caretaker of the nearly ...

Lonesome George at Wildlife Preservations. (Photo by Zoë Lescaze) He was nosing his way out of an egg the size of a billiard ball as Picasso put the final dabs of paint on Ma Jolie. He was wracked ...

Turns out the Pinta Island tortoise, thought to be extinct with the passing of Lonesome George in 2012, is not totally lost. Dr. James Gibbs, a professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...

Lonesome George, the last of the tortoise subspecies Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni from Pinta island in the Galapagos, has died at age 100. Previously known as the world’s rarest tortoise, old George is ...