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The Sixth Great Extinction: A Silent Extermination
Posted by IZILWANE on March 28, 2012
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LONESOME GEORGE Lonesome George is a large, mud-loving Pinta tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni), living out his long life in the Galapagos Islands. In 1971, George was found alone on Pinta Island and taken to the Charles Darwin Research Station, where scientists theorized that he was the last of his subspecies on the planet. When he dies,…
