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In general, most tortoise species can live for 80150 years. One was known as Lonesome George, a male Pinta Island tortoise, the last known of the species, who died in 2012 without leaving any offspring. Galpagos tortoises are known to live for more than 150 years, but an albabra giant tortoise named Advaita can live an estimated 255 years. elephantopus from Floreana Island, which was hunted into extinction in the 1850s. How many Pinta giant tortoise are left The current population of giant tortoises from various species is estimated at 60,000, according to data from the Galapagos National Park. The Volcán Wolf region might hold even more genetic promise: A study published earlier this year in Current Biology revealed that 11 tortoises from the area carried the genes of yet another Galápagos tortoise species, C. Lonesome George (Spanish: Solitario Jorge) is the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise, subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni, one of eleven. Instead, the animals were probably carried all or part of the way by the sailors that overran the Galápagos Islands in the nineteenth century, Fishermen and pirates frequently dined on giant tortoises and were the main cause for the decline of Lonesome George’s subspecies. Isabella and Pinta islands are located about 60 kilometers apart, so the researchers don’t think that Pinta Island tortoises swam or floated to their new home. The subspecies was described by Albert Günther in 1877 after specimens arrived in London. Even more importantly, five of the 17 hybrid tortoises were juveniles - less than 20 years old - which lead the researchers to suspect that at least one purebred PInta Island tortoise may be hiding somewhere on Isabella Island. The Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis niger abingdonii), also known as the Pinta giant tortoise, Abingdon Island tortoise, or Abingdon Island giant tortoise, was a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise native to Ecuadors Pinta Island. Now, several years and many DNA tests later, more hybrids have been found.

Some of the same Yale researchers contributed to a 2007 paper in Current Biology that first revealed that a single tortoise on Isabella Island contained mitochondrial DNA similar to those of the Pinta Island subspecies. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.