Fossil tortoise at the Central Natural Science Collections at MLU. Credit: Markus Scholz / MLU The evolution of giant tortoises might not be linked to islands, as has previously been thought. In a ...
A giant tortoise that scientists once filed under “extinct for more than a century” has turned out to be very much alive, slowly roaming one of the harshest corners of the Galápagos Islands. The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands, using genetic data to determine that a group of 250 of the slow-moving grazing reptiles was ...