Bringing greater visibility to the emerging category of endling taxidermy, this article traces the histories of taxidermic preservations and biotechnological interventions that lead up to, and follow, the extinction of the Pinta Island tortoise. As the last of the line, Lonesome George (the last individual of the Pinta Island species) is an endling that has been rendered hypervisible in the public imagination as an icon of conservation. Yet the taxidermic form of Lonesome George is also accompanied by an enlarged and conflicting sense of trepidation and optimism about the future of species biodiversity in the wake of the sixth mass extinction. By gathering together the narrative strands of tortoise extinction in the Galapagos Islands from a diverse range of natural scientific, nautical, and literary histories, this article explores how the visual display of endling taxidermy shapes the origins, endings, and future trajectories of extinct species lines.

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孤独乔治的终结动物标本剥制术：线尽头的灭绝图像

这篇文章为新兴的终末动物标本剥制术带来了更大的知名度，追溯了导致和跟随平塔岛陆龟灭绝的动物标本剥制术保存和生物技术干预的历史。作为该系列的最后一个，孤独的乔治（平塔岛物种的最后一个个体）是一个结尾，在公众的想象中作为保护的象征已经变得超可见。然而，在第六次大灭绝之后，孤独乔治的动物标本剥制形式也伴随着对物种生物多样性未来的恐惧和乐观。通过从各种自然科学、航海和文学历史中收集加拉帕戈斯群岛陆龟灭绝的叙事线索，