BooRadley
06-24-2012, 08:17 PM
QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuadorean officials say that the famed Galapagos giant tortoise Lonesome George has died.
The Galapagos National Park says in a statement that the tortoise estimated to be about 100 years old died Sunday.
He was believed to be the last living member of the Geochelone abigdoni species and had become a symbol of the islands that helped inspire Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/24/4585903/famed-galapagos-tortoise-dies.html
I think the nature of the Galapagos is generally towards rapid extinction and rapid evolution, anyway. The island chain makes special-purpose species but the chain itself changes rapidly, expiring the value of whatever species were made there, in the past.
The Galapagos National Park says in a statement that the tortoise estimated to be about 100 years old died Sunday.
He was believed to be the last living member of the Geochelone abigdoni species and had become a symbol of the islands that helped inspire Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/24/4585903/famed-galapagos-tortoise-dies.html
I think the nature of the Galapagos is generally towards rapid extinction and rapid evolution, anyway. The island chain makes special-purpose species but the chain itself changes rapidly, expiring the value of whatever species were made there, in the past.