The researchers even suggested that George may have full relatives on the same island. The potential salvation of George’s species, the Pinta tortoise, began in 1994. That year, the Yale team ...

Lonesome George, the last surviving Pinta Island giant tortoise, has died at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Scientists believe he was more than 100 years old. Staff at the Galapagos National ...

For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Islands. Park officials said the tortoise ...

(CNN) -- Lonesome George, the last surviving Pinta Island giant tortoise, has died at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Scientists believe he was more than 100 years old. Staff at the Galapagos ...

When the famed Pinta Island tortoise of the Galapagos known as “Lonesome George” died around age 100 in 2012, it was believed that the symbol of conservation was the last of his species.

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 ...

Planning is underway for expeditions to find a male mate to save the species so the tortoise doesn’t meet the same fate as Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise who died in 2012 without ...

Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one subspecies poorer. The only remaining Pinta Island giant tortoise and celebrated symbol of conservation efforts in the Galapagos Islands passed away ...

In 2012, Lonesome George died in his home at the Tortoise Breeding and Rearing Center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos. The centenarian was the last of the Pinta Island tortoises.