The First Recorded Climate Victim The Bramble Cay melomys, an unassuming rodent that once inhabited a coral island in ...

For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Islands. Park officials said the tortoise ...

George the Pinta Island tortoise and Martha the passenger pigeon achieved fame as ‘endlings’ – the last individuals of their species. Their passing is tragic, but can their fate perhaps help us to ...

George was about 14 years old and his name was derived from the Pinta Island Galapagos tortoise, “Lonesome George,” also the last of its species. The last known Achatinella apexfulva in the ...