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Fernanda, the only known living Fernandina giant tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus, or ?fantastic giant tortoise?), now lives at the Gal?pagos National Park's Giant Tortoise Breeding Center on Santa Cruz Island. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century. Princeton geneticist Stephen Gaughran successfully extracted DNA from a specimen collected from the same island more than a century ago and confirmed that Fernanda and the museum specimen are members of the same species and genetically distinct from all other Gal?pagos tortoises.

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Galapagos tortoise thought extinct for 100 years has been found alive

A single female of the Fernandina Island tortoise species that was thought to be extinct for a century has been found in the Galapagos Islands

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HAJEXW Jackdaws Corvus monedula going to roost and gathering before dark in beech trees

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Flocks of jackdaws 'democratically' decide when to take flight at once

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Harvest mice (Micromys minutus)

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Female mice release banana-scented urine when pregnant to deter males

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Bottlenose dolphins

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Bottlenose dolphins can identify friends by tasting their urine

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A dolphin with a fungal infection on its dorsal fin

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Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is packed with floating life

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is packed with floating life

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Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species

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Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species

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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

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Octopus bimaculoides

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A steroid might be why octopuses starve themselves after mating

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A male Jackson?s chameleon from Oahu, Hawaii.

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Kenyan chameleons evolved brighter colours after moving to Hawaii

Chameleons introduced to Hawaii in 1972 have started flaunting brighter colours, probably because they have fewer predators to hide from

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Dismissing Australian mammals as weird hurts efforts to conserve them

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Amazon river dolphin may actually be multiple species

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Jackals seen stealing kills from lynx as they expand range in Europe

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Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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