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Lonesome George Is Dead At 100

Posted by Unknown on from the he-was-only-middle-aged dept.

New submitter camperdave writes "Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said. He was thought to be about 100 years old."

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  1. Re:Poor bastard... by TheInternetGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    he could have been impotent thus the inability to interbreed would not be able to produce offspring while still compatible species

    Nah, he was just wise with age, and took precautions so that he didn't need to spend the golden years heating formula and changing turtle diapers.

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  2. Re:Subspecies! by catmistake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Organisms that belong to different subspecies of the same species are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring

    Here, then, Lonesome George was a subspecies anomaly. He got more action than any slashdotters with a 4-digit user identifier, but I suppose that really isn't saying too much.

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  3. Re:Soup's up! by kat_skan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing better on a cold night like this than some boiling hot soup! Why don't I just go ahead and heat you up a cup? It's made from turtles! Turtles that you love!

  4. Re:DNA? by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

    Informative karma is the cheapest karma. O, were it only that these words might be found insightful or interesting! (But I'll settle for funny.)

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  5. Re:Unknown? by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that only works on elephants and investment bankers.

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  6. Re:Subspecies! by el_flynn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I resent that!

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  7. Age by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "About 100"

    At least now they can chop him in half and count the rings.

  8. Re:Poor bastard... by englishknnigits · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nature always finds a way...

  9. Re:Unknown? by RivenAleem · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but you don't suddenly drop dead from being old.

    He was a Tortoise, they don't suddenly do ANYTHING.

  10. Re:Unknown? by RivenAleem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, with no women around he should have been able to live forever. I think the scientists are to blame for introducing him to not just one, but two females. There's your cause for reduced lifespan right there.

  11. Why did it take so long to get this story up? by damn_registrars · · Score: 1, Funny

    All the news agencies had already covered and forgotten this story by now.

    Frankly, I think a tortoise could have gotten this story up on his own front page in less time...

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  12. I'm confused by Yoda222 · · Score: 1, Funny

    From my science courses, I know that God put the dinosaurs fossils in the ground, and that evolution don't exists. We always have the same species/subspecies/... form the beginning of the world (arround 6000 years ago.) So how does that fits in the model ? - Georges never exists, God just gives us a dead body and implant some fake memories in our brain ? - Georges will reborn (and he is in fact the son of God) ? - Some other explanation ?