In this paper we compare the genome of a female tortoise found in 2019 on Fernandina island with the only other tortoise ever found on this island more than 100 years ago, a...
Yale News: An international expedition to a remote Galapagos Island rescued enough tortoises to start a breeding program that may help resurrect an extinct species,...
How we rediscovered ‘extinct’ giant tortoises in the Galápagos Islands – and how to save them
January 7, 2016
The Galápagos Islands, 1,000 kilometres off the...
A Yale team spent the last part of November in the Galapagos gathering dozens of giant tortoises that carry the DNA of extinct species that used to roam two islands in the...
