Each day, 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct. Despite these numbers, it is rare to watch a species cease to exist in real time. In 2012, the world watched as a species took its last breath. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Pinta Island tortoise went extinct in 2012, when ...

Encore performance of a song by NPR's Adam Cole about Lonesome George, celebrity tortoise. This story originally aired Jan. 11, 2015 on All Things... Remembering Lonesome George, Another Famous ...

Experience the unforgettable moment when Sir David encounters Lonesome George, the last of his kind. Experience the unforgettable moment when Sir David Attenborough encounters Lonesome George, the ...

At about 100 years old, Lonesome George, the world’s rarest tortoise, dies – putting an end to his species. Pinta Island tortoise ‘Lonesome George’ has died, leaving the world one species poorer. The ...

When the famed Pinta Island tortoise of the Galapagos known as “Lonesome George” died around age 100 in 2012, it was believed that the symbol of conservation was the last of his species. But eight ...

The Galapagos tortoise known as Lonesome George may lose his ranking as the world's rarest living creature now that scientists have discovered he has a distant cousin. George, who has stubbornly ...

Famed Galápagos tortoise Lonesome George’s subspecies might not be extinct after all — researchers are calling the discovery of a surviving female relative “a story of hope” that the giant creature’s ...