For those of you who aren't reptile news followers, I'd like to share probably the saddest news of the year: Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, was found dead this morning.
He was estimated to be over 100, and looks it too, but now his species is forever extinct. The center at which he lived had been trying for years to get him to breed with similar species to preserve some of his DNA, but hadn't succeeded.
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Oh George :-( So glad you got to meet him before he left. Stefan has a tortoise friend now.
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