Scientists sequence Lonesome George’s genome, find genes associated with long life and giant size
Lonesome George is dead -- but his story is still alive, written in a genome whose secrets we are just ...
Tag: Giant tortoise
Giant Galapagos tortoise extinct for 150 years might still be alive
A subspecies of the the giant Galapagos tortoise, Chelonoidis elephantopus, long thought to be extinct for more than 150 years, is ...