http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/24/458...oise-dies.htmlQUITO, 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.
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.
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell [the bible] teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society." Rep. Paul Broun (R)
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!" -- Jerry Falwell
that's sad.
e. e. cummings is my hero.
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