NPR: galapapgos https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=375640459 galapapgos en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:20:51 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: galapapgos https://www.npr.org/tags/375640459/galapapgos Scientists Take A Ride On The Pacific's 'Shark Highway' Biologists knew the sharks sometimes traveled from waters off Costa Rica south to the Galapagos Islands, but they'd never actually witnessed it. Tue, 22 May 2018 11:46:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/611955569/scientists-take-a-ride-on-the-pacifics-shark-highway https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/611955569/scientists-take-a-ride-on-the-pacifics-shark-highway

Biologists knew the sharks sometimes traveled from waters off Costa Rica south to the Galapagos Islands, but they'd never actually witnessed it.

]]> Christopher Joyce Science-Based Artist Gives Celebrity Tortoise A Second Life Lonesome George was the last surviving member of his species and a conservation icon. When the tortoise died, taxidermist George Dante set out to preserve his body, and his legacy. Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:01:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390153383/science-based-artist-gives-celebrity-tortoise-a-second-life https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390153383/science-based-artist-gives-celebrity-tortoise-a-second-life

Lonesome George was the last surviving member of his species and a conservation icon. When the tortoise died, taxidermist George Dante set out to preserve his body, and his legacy.

]]> Adam Cole A Musical Memorial For The Face Of Extinction Lonesome George was the last of his subspecies of giant tortoise from the Galapagos. For decades scientists tried to find him a mate, but he died alone. NPR's Adam Cole offers this elegiac tribute. Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:43:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2015/01/06/375481820/a-musical-memorial-for-the-face-of-extinction https://www.npr.org/2015/01/06/375481820/a-musical-memorial-for-the-face-of-extinction

Lonesome George was the last of his subspecies of giant tortoise from the Galapagos. For decades scientists tried to find him a mate, but he died alone. NPR's Adam Cole offers this elegiac tribute.

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