A tortoise from a Galápagos species that scientists had long deemed extinct has now been found to be alive. The tortoise, named Fernanda, is the first of her species identified in more than a century, according to a group of Princeton and Yale University researchers, who published their discovery in Communications Biology on Thursday. Fernanda is a member of the Fernandina Island Galápagos giant tortoise species, also known as a “fantastic giant tortoise” — a species known only from a single male specimen collected in 1906, the scientists said. “For many years it was thought that the original specimen collected in 1906 had been transplanted to the island, as it was the only one o
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