Each day, 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct. Despite these numbers, it is rare to watch a species cease to exist in real time. In 2012, the world watched as a species took its last breath. The ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Pinta Island tortoise went extinct in 2012, when ...
The embalmed body of the giant tortoise known as Lonesome George -- the last known member of a species that was wiped out with his death in 2012 -- returned home to the Ecuadoran Galapagos Islands.
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