Shop the $1 Sales Rack at Buffalo Exchange this Saturday, April 19th and help the Pinta Tortoise. Lonesome George is lonely again this Earth Day. Lonesome George is the very last of his kind, the ...

When a giant tortoise named Lonesome George died, his kind, the Pinta Island tortoises of the Galapagos, suffered the same fate as the unfortunate dodo bird: Both bird and tortoise were wiped off ...

Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island tortoise, pictured seen at Galapagos National Park's breeding center in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz island, in 2008. Famed giant tortoise Lonesome George has ...

Lonesome George, a giant Galapagos tortoise long thought to be the sole survivor of his species, has relatives living on a nearby island, scientists say. George was found on the small island of Pinta ...

Turns out the Pinta Island tortoise, thought to be extinct with the passing of Lonesome George in 2012, is not totally lost. Dr. James Gibbs, a professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...

The subspecies of giant Galapagos tortoise that inhabited Pinta Island in the Ecuadorian Galapagos was thought to have already gone extinct when George was discovered in 1972, spurring an enthusiastic ...