The discovery of a lonely tortoise doubles the number of known individuals of the 'phantasticus' species. Evolutionary scientists were perplexed by the finding of a single, little female tortoise in 2019 that lives on one of the Galapagos Islands' most isolated islands. Only one other tortoise, a h
Fernanda, the only known living Fernandina giant tortoise , now lives at the Galápagos National Park’s Giant Tortoise Breeding Center on Santa Cruz Island. Credit: Courtesy of the Galápagos Conservancy
Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century. Princeton geneticist Stephen Gaughran successfully extracted DNA from a specimen collected from the same island more than a century ago and confirmed that Fernanda and the museum specimen are members of the same species and genetically distinct from all other Galápagos tortoises.
“The finding of one alive specimen gives hope and also opens up new questions as many mysteries still remain,” said Caccone, a member of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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