The post The Tortoise That Went Extinct Twice May Not Be Gone Yet appeared first on A-Z Animals.Each day, 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct. Despite these numbers, it is rare to watch a species cease to exist in real time. In 2012, the world watched as a species took its last breath. The death of Lonesome George was the end of an era; as the last of the Pinta Island tortoises, the species’ extinction had been inevitable for decades. Howe…
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