A Giant Tortoise named <\/span>Chelonoidis Phantasticus once believed to be extinct has been recently discovered in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n IUCN status<\/strong>: Critically endangered & possibly extinct.<\/p>\n Chelonoidis Phantasticus is a Giant Tortoise. It is commonly called Fernandina Island, Gal\u00e1pagos Giant Tortoise.<\/span><\/p>\n It has been named Fernanda after the Fernandina Island where it was discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n The species was so far known only from a single individual, collected in 1906. It has now been recently discovered again in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n These tortoises can\u2019t swim from one island to another. But they can be carried from one Gal\u00e1pagos island to another during major storms. There are also historical records of seafarers moving the tortoises between islands.<\/span><\/p>\n Fernandina Island is an active volcano that stands alone on the western periphery of the Gal\u00e1pagos Archipelago. It is reputed to be the largest pristine island on Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cThis word means: Chelonoidis phantasticus<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express on 11th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A Giant Tortoise named Chelonoidis Phantasticus once believed to be extinct has been recently discovered in 2019. What is Chelonoidis Phantasticus? IUCN status: Critically endangered & possibly extinct. Chelonoidis Phantasticus is a Giant Tortoise. It is commonly called Fernandina Island, Gal\u00e1pagos Giant Tortoise. It has been named Fernanda after the Fernandina… Continue reading Gal\u00e1pagos Giant Tortoise name Chelonoidis phantasticus Rediscovered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-190025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702043611},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is <\/b>Chelonoidis Phantasticus?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Fernandina Island?<\/strong><\/h5>\n