Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise
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Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise
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Chelonoidis niger phantasticus is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise that was discovered in 1906 and thought extinct, until a single female was discovered living on Fernandina Island by an expedition in February 2019. In May 2021, a genetic test carried out by scientists from the California Academy of Sciences confirmed that the single female tortoise discovered in 2019 is from the subspecies Chelonoidis niger phantasticus. The subspecies name has often been misspelled as phantastica, an error i
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Critically endangered subspecies of tortoise
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandina_Island_Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise
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2024-04-20T14:48:28Z
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