Shelling Out

RIP Lonesome George, last of the Galapagos Giant Tortoises. His whole subspecies is now extinct – the end of what is probably a 10 million-year-old line. There's still 20 odd thousand other slightly different giant tortoises though...see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/25/lonesome-george?newsfeed=true