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Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario George or Jorge, c. 1910 [2] [3] [4] [5] – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii) and ...
Lonesome George, along with other of the tortoises on Pinta Island, belonged to a species of 15 subspecies. Giant tortoises were once found on all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. The Galápagos tortoises remain the largest living tortoises. Albert Günther, who described Testudo abingdonii in 1877
Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) [2] [3] is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea).His approximate age is estimated to be 192 as of 2024, making him the oldest known living land animal.
For now, Fernanda is in a similar position to Lonesome George, who was famed for being the last of the Pinta Island Galapagos giant tortoises. Lonesome George lived out his final decades of life ...
An Aldabra giant tortoise, an example of a giant tortoise.. Giant tortoises are any of several species of various large land tortoises, which include a number of extinct species, [1] as well as two extant species with multiple subspecies formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands.
Jonathan the Seychelles Giant Tortoise hatched in the Georgian era and is the oldest known living land animal on Earth and the oldest chelonian ever recorded.
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Abingdon Island tortoise. Conservation status Extinct [12] Günther 1877. [13] The holotype of C. n. ephippium (Günther 1875) is a misidentified C. abingdoni, [14] so technically abingdoni is a junior synonym. Lonesome George, the last living member of the subspecies, died on June 24, 2012. This subspecies was severely depleted by whalers and ...