Large tortoises lived in South Africa long ago: how we recorded their fast-disappearing traces
Large tortoises lived in South Africa long ago: how we recorded their fast-disappearing traces: Today, leopard tortoises are the largest species found on the Cape south coast. Ava Peattie/Shutterstock In 1835 Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, was exploring an island in the Galápagos archipelago when he encountered “two large tortoises, each …