The “fantastic giant tortoise” — a rare Galápagos species with a huge, flared shell — has only been identified once, more than a century ago, in 1906. It’s since widely been considered ...

These giant tortoises may then have come back together to form one population, as is currently being observed in Volcán Wolf giant tortoises on another of the Galápagos Islands. Depending on how ...

Galapagos 'fantastic giant tortoise' was believed to be extinct for 100 years — until the discovery of a lone 50 ... a more than 50-year-old "fantastic giant tortoise" of the Galápagos Islands.

The Fernandina Island Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus, or "fantastic giant tortoise") was known only from a single specimen, collected in 1906.The discovery in 2019 of a female ...

Earlier this week, scientists at Yale University confirmed a giant female tortoise found in the Galapagos Islands was of a species last reported 112 years ago and thought to be "lost forever ...

DNA analysis showed a recently discovered Galápagos Islands tortoise was the same species as a specimen found in 1906, according to a new paper.

We’re told the record is an 800-pound giant tortoise found living on a different Galápagos island. Photos taken during the KPRC 2 - Houston Zoo trip to the Galápagos Islands in 2022 (KPRC) It ...

Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant tortoise discovered, only 15 remain and most are critically endangered.

A volcano has erupted on an island in the Galápagos where the last known survivor of a species of giant tortoise was discovered. The La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island began erupting on ...

A captive breeding program has seen the return of Galapagos giant tortoises to Española in the Galapagos Islands. As the tortoise population rebounds, the island ecosystem is in the process of ...

Park workers inspect a giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador in January 2020. (Tui De Roy/AP) By Rachel Pannett.

The islands’ name comes from an old Spanish word ‘galápago’, which refers to the saddle-like shape of the tortoise shells. Originally, there were 14 different giant tortoise species here.