“Last Pinta Giant Tortoise Lonesome George Dies"
2012 CE • Galápagos Islands
“With no offspring and no known individuals from his subspecies left, Lonesome George became known as the rarest creature in the world. For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Island . . . Some 20,000 giant tortoises of other subspecies still live on the Galapagos.”
"Last Pinta Giant Tortoise Lonesome George Dies," BBC News, June 24, 2012.
Image: Cook, David. Lonesome George, Last of His Kind. Digital image. N.p., 23 July 2008. Web.
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