‘Extinct’ Giant Turtle Might Be One Of World’s Rarest Creatures
By AutoBlog at 10 January, 2012, 4:30 pm
A giant tortoise species presumed extinct for more than 150 years is actually roaming the Galápagos islands today according to DNA evidence, scientists report. They haven’t actually laid eyes on the Chelonoidis elephantopus. But DNA sequences taken from another Galápagos species, C. becki, show they are hybrids of the presumably extinct species, meaning it must have been one of …
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‘Extinct’ Giant Turtle Might Be One Of World’s Rarest Creatures
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