{"id":34304,"date":"2021-05-26T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34304"},"modified":"2021-05-26T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:06:08","slug":"galapagos-tortoise-found-alive-is-from-a-species-thought-extinct-since-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34304","title":{"rendered":"Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise found alive is from a species thought extinct since 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Genetic tests on a giant tortoise found on the Gal\u00e1pagos island of Fernandina have confirmed the individual is from a species last sighted in 1906. <\/p>\n<p>The female Fernandina giant tortoise, or Chelonoidis phantasticus, was discovered during a 2019 expedition to the island. <\/p>\n<p>The director of the Gal\u00e1pagos National Park, Danny Rueda, has said another expedition will be launched to try to find other members of the same species.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-57263621\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic tests on a giant tortoise found on the Gal\u00e1pagos island of Fernandina have confirmed the individual is from a species last sighted in 1906. The female Fernandina giant tortoise, or Chelonoidis phantasticus, was discovered during a 2019 expedition to the island. The director of the Gal\u00e1pagos National Park, Danny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09jqcgw.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}