When Fray Tomás de Berlanga first landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1535, he wasn’t impressed by the dry, volcanic landscape. However, he certainly was shocked to see giant tortoises so enormous that ...

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 ...