Ecuador - A team of scientists has found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have gone extinct more than 100 years ago, according to a press release issued Tuesday.After two years, a team from Ecuador's Ministry of the Environment and Water and the Galapagos Conservancy organization found an adult female giant tortoise on Fernandina Island, the third-largest island of the Galápagos Islands.
A team of researchers at Yale University compared the DNA of the tortoise with another specimen extracted in 1906.The team determined that the DNA belonged to the Chelonoidis phantasticus species, which was considered extinct more than a century ago."This discovery undoubtedly renews our hope for the recovery of this species, in order to avoid a.