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Western Neighborhoods Project Podcast - Outside Lands Podcast Episode 501: California Academy of Sciences Part 2

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

Scientists had thought the fantastic giant tortoise, or Chelonoidis phantasticus, had been extinct. Then they found Fernanda.

When a small female tortoise was spotted in 2019 on the inaccessible volcanic island of Fernandina in the Galapagos, researchers were shocked.

Turtley Amazing - Tortoise Species Long Believed Extinct Found Alive And Well On Galápagos Islands

The Fernandina Island Galápagos giant tortoise is confirmed to be alive by scientists at Princeton University, USA. A female discovered in 2019 has the same genome as century-old specimen.

Identification of Galápagos tortoise celebrated by scientists as a big deal for island’s biodiversity

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive and now confirmed to be a member of the species. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century.

Discovery of the ‘fantastic giant tortoise’ delights experts after the animals were considered extinct for more than a century