The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

For decades, environmentalists unsuccessfully tried to get the Pinta Island tortoise to reproduce with females from a similar subspecies on the Galapagos Islands. Park officials said the tortoise ...

In 2012, Lonesome George died in his home at the Tortoise Breeding and Rearing Center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos. The centenarian was the last of the Pinta Island tortoises.

Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, died in 2012, leaving no offspring. His solitude was imposed upon him by humans who killed the rest of his species and brought goats to his ...

Lonesome George was the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise species. He became a poignant symbol of the devastating impact of human interference on the Galápagos ecosystem ...