This Creature Went Extinct 136,000 Years Ago – But Then Evolution Repeated Itself

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Yes, the animal in question was the Fernandina giant tortoise. These specimens apparently died out after 1906, as that year marked the last time anyone saw one on Fernandina Island, in the Galȧpagos. But that soon changed in the early part of 2019, when the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative stumbled across one of the creatures.

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