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- American Museum Of Natural History To Preserve Lonesome George
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Lonesome George , a 100-year-old giant tortoise that once lived on the Galapagos Islands, is going to be preserved by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Scientists made the surprising discovery of Lonesome George on Pinta Island in 1972. They had thought his species, Geochelone nigra abingdoni , was already extinct before ...
July 3, 2013 - redOrbit