Johnathan, who is believed to have been born around 1832, earned the title of the world’s oldest living land animal in 2022 ...

On Nov. 25, 2024, a Reddit user posted a photo purportedly showing a tortoise born in 1832 to the r/pics subreddit.At the time of this writing, the post had received around 155,000 upvotes and ...

At 190 years old — more or less — Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise is celebrating his birthday on St Helena in the remote South Atlantic, where the defeated French emperor died in exile ...

By the time the oldest human dies, odds are there's a giant tortoise out there somewhere who'll live twice as long as they did. Hailing from the Indian Ocean and the Galapagos islands, giant ...

One giant tortoise is at least 190 years old, making it the record holder for oldest land animal. Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva Hopefully with the continued pampering, Janus will leave at ...

Conservationists are pushing the U.S. government to craft a recovery plan for America’s Bolson tortoises, the largest and rarest tortoise species in the county.

The Cincinnati Zoo has relied on MedVet's facilities in the past, but in those cases the animals were usually closer in size to a household pet — not a 180-pound tortoise with a massive shell.

The giant sulcata tortoise can grow up to 30 inches in length and weigh over 100 pounds, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.Stitch was a little less than 80 pounds when adopted, Ms ...