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"The giant Pinta Island tortoise Lonesome George has died at Galapagos National Park. Believed to be the last of its Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni subspecies, he was estimated to be 100 years old, BBC News reports. As some such tortoises can live up to 200, a post-mortem will be carried out by park officials to determine the cause of death. Lonesome George was found dead in his corral by Fausto Llerena, who had been his keeper for the last four decades. His body will probably be embalmed. He was spotted first on the Galapagos island of Pinta in 1972 by a Hungarian scientist. The Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni was previously thought to be extinct. Part of the Galapagos National Park breeding programme, Lonesome George mated with a female tortoise after 15 years of cohabiting, but their eggs were infertile. Watch the BBC&amp;#039;s Explore visit to Lonesome George below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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