Let's get a round of applause for this beautiful tortoise!
Let's get a round of applause for this beautiful tortoise!Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known tortoise of her kind.
The Fernandina Giant Tortoise was — or, now, once again is — native to the eponymous Fernandina, an active volcano isle located in the Western Galápagos. Also known whimsically as the "fantastic giant tortoise," the species was believed to be extinct for over a century, a loss that scientists attributed to centuries of volcanic eruptions.
That is, until 2017, when Galápagos national park rangers found a surprising sign of hope for the species: traces of the reptile's dung. Fernanda was discovered two years later by a team of researchers from the Galápagos Conservancy'sWhile the discovery was intriguing, the researchers couldn't be totally sure that Fern — as she's been affectionately dubbed — was the slow-moving, unbothered reptile they'd dreamed of finding.
"We simultaneously were able to show the connection between Fernanda and the other Fernandina tortoise, and also the distinctiveness of those two tortoises from species that we see on other islands," Stephen Gaughran, a Princeton University researcher and co-author of the paper,
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