Monday, December 1, 2014

Lonesome George, the Giant Tortoise, Preserved in All His Glory

Tucked in a corner of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, next to fossils of long-gone gigantic sloths and knee-high horses, stands a newcomer to the extinction parade: , the and a native of the Galápagos's Pinta Island. Until his death in 2012, the giant tortoise had stood as a global conservation icon for four decades. Now, of taxidermists and until his January 4 return to his South American homeland, George still shares his message amid other vanished species—lonesome no more.


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