Daily Archives: July 10, 2012

An Ecuadorian Hero Lost at 140 years

Good Bye Lonesome George. I got to meet Lonesome George briefly in The Galapagos in February.  He was very handsome, for a giant tortoise, and he was the last of his kind.  Every island in the Galapagos has a different, unique, subspecies of tortoise-differences that contributed to Darwin’s theory of … Continue reading

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