Giant Tortoise\, Thought To Be Extinct\, Found After 100 Years
Giant Tortoise, Thought To Be Extinct, Found After 100 Years
The adult female tortoise was found on the island of Fernandina in the west of the Pacific archipelago, and is believed to be a Fernandina Giant Tortoise, also known as Chelonoidis phantasticus, a species last sighted in 1906.
The animal "exceeds 100 years" in age and is "a very old tortoise" (AFP)
