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re: UPDATE: World's oldest land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, *NOT* dead at 193+ years old
Posted on 4/1/26 at 7:00 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 4/1/26 at 7:00 pm to Jim Rockford
He’s still alive. Confirmed April fools joke. However, I did learn that he’s gay though.
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:00 pm to OweO
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You don't usually see males being the oldest living...
Those are usually the married ones.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:03 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
It was probably time for the old fella. Let's face it, for the last 50 years he has been just a shell of his former self.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 8:08 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:15 pm to nealnan8
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Let's face it, for the last 50 years he has been just a shell of his former self
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:39 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
The oldest sea creature known to man is the Greenland shark that is about 20 feet long, 2000 pounds and has a lifespan of 250-500 years.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:53 pm to nealnan8
quote:Underrated comment. Enjoy your upvote.
It was probably time for the old fella. Let's face it, for the last 50 years he has been just a shell of his former self.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:53 pm to JoeyP239
quote:Very cool.
The oldest sea creature known to man is the Greenland shark that is about 20 feet long, 2000 pounds and has a lifespan of 250-500 years.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:09 pm to JoeyP239
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The oldest sea creature known to man is the Greenland shark that is about 20 feet long, 2000 pounds and has a lifespan of 250-500 years.
Somewhere out there is a shark that was born when Henry VIII was king of England. :mindblown:
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:18 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
man i don't five a frick about no goddamn turtle
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:21 pm to Turnblad85
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man i don't five a frick about no goddamn turtle
Yet you clicked on the thread and then clicked reply and used your little dick beaters to post that you don’t care. Good fricking job.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:40 am to 4x4tiger
Was smarter too.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 4:05 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I worked with 100s of Saints (people of St. Helena Island) while I was working on Ascension Island the past 4 years. In fact, I saw where one of them posted a picture of his girlfriend touching Jonathan just two days ago.
Next week I head for Midway Island where I plan to get a picture of Wisdom, a Laysan albatross which is "the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world." She is at least 74-75 years old. She is still having and raising a chick as of this season.
ETA: Now i see that ole boy is still kicking. Good to see that.
Next week I head for Midway Island where I plan to get a picture of Wisdom, a Laysan albatross which is "the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world." She is at least 74-75 years old. She is still having and raising a chick as of this season.
ETA: Now i see that ole boy is still kicking. Good to see that.
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 4:09 am
Posted on 4/2/26 at 7:03 am to Volt
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ETA: Now i see that ole boy is still kicking. Good to see that
and doesn’t look a day over 175.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 7:13 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
This is social media, and how misinformation spreads, summed up in one post.
Everybody reacts without reading or fact checking.
OP posts "Johnathan turtle dead at 193. " Bottom of post says it's not true and a crypto scam.
Everyone commenting on here says RIP Johnathan even though he's still alive.
I don't know if people are too lazy to read the entire post. Too lazy to fact check or just want to be the first to post on a topic.
Everybody reacts without reading or fact checking.
OP posts "Johnathan turtle dead at 193. " Bottom of post says it's not true and a crypto scam.
Everyone commenting on here says RIP Johnathan even though he's still alive.
I don't know if people are too lazy to read the entire post. Too lazy to fact check or just want to be the first to post on a topic.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 7:23 am to YNWA
Yes, he's still alive.
quote:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Friends of the British Overseas Territories has confirmed that the real Joe Hollins does not have an X account, and that Jonathan the Tortoise is alive. This account is soliciting crypto donations, has recently changed its username.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:38 pm to tonydtigr
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:43 pm to YNWA
quote:
This is social media, and how misinformation spreads, summed up in one post.
Everybody reacts without reading or fact checking.
OP posts "Johnathan turtle dead at 193. " Bottom of post says it's not true and a crypto scam.
Everyone commenting on here says RIP Johnathan even though he's still alive.
I don't know if people are too lazy to read the entire post. Too lazy to fact check or just want to be the first to post on a topic.
You're right, I posted this in a rush and didn't think a story like this was at risk of being wrong or a scam. I was wrong.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:53 pm to Volvagia
They recently dated a Greenland Shark at approximately 400 years old.
NUCKING FUTS.
Fascinating how they determined this:
NUCKING FUTS.
Fascinating how they determined this:
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The key trick was radiocarbon dating the shark’s eye lens, not its bones. Greenland sharks are cartilaginous, so they do not have the kind of hard calcified structures scientists often use to age fish. But the center of the eye lens is made of proteins formed before birth and then largely left unchanged for life, so it preserves a chemical timestamp from when the shark was developing.
Researchers measured carbon-14 in the eye-lens nuclei from 28 female Greenland sharks. They used the “bomb pulse” from atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1950s–1960s as a calibration marker: younger sharks showed that post-1960 radiocarbon signature, while older sharks did not. From that pattern, plus a model relating shark length to age, they estimated the ages of the larger, older sharks.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:50 pm to kywildcatfanone
quote:Like what? He's a frickin tortoise on an island. Shoes used to have leather soles now they are mostly rubber?
Think of the things he saw in his lifetime.
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