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The Safeway sign on Market Street is likely SF's last neon sign representing a national chain. The company will convert the ...

Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...

Each island is a world of its own, with different geology, vegetation and animals. On board La Pinta, we visited five of the eastern Galapagos islands, from the arid cactus tree landscape of South ...

Exploring the Galapagos Islands is one of life’s most ... the last surviving tortoise from Pinta Island; and witness the live ...

Sadly, two are now extinct, including the last Pinta Island tortoise ... hundreds of thousands of giant tortoises lived in the Galapagos Islands. However, sailors began capturing the animals ...

Lonesome George was the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise species ... Lonesome George made his final journey back to the Galapagos in 2017, standing as a perpetual beacon of ...

In 2012, Lonesome George died in his home at the Tortoise Breeding and Rearing Center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos. The centenarian was the last of the Pinta Island tortoises.