As with Wallace’s giant bee, also feared extinct, the researchers had gone out looking for the tortoise.
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Tortoise study does not support textbook “island rule” for evolution
From ScienceDaily: The fact that all living giant tortoises are insular may suggest that their evolution followed the so-called island rule: a trend toward dwarfism of large animals and gigantism of small animals on islands… In a recent study in the journal “Cladistics,” Dr Evangelos Vlachos from the Paleontological Museum of Trelew, Argentina, and Dr […]