New Species of Galapagos Giant Tortoise

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New Species of Galapagos Giant Tortoise

Postby Westley Price » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:11 am

So with the recent death of Lonesome George a couple of years back and the resulting extinction of the Pinta Island Tortoise, it seems only appropriate that we describe a new species to make up for what was lost ;)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138779
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Re: New Species of Galapagos Giant Tortoise

Postby Bushviper » Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:23 pm

We might have lost more before we even knew about them too. So sad.
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