Back from the dead. Tortoise species thought extinct for 100 years is confirmed to be alive
2021-05-26 18:38
Scientists matched a specimen extracted in 1906 with DNA from a tortoise found in 2019, confirming the Chelonoidis phantasticus species was in fact not extinct.
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