[Animals] Biological mechanisms that allow giant turtles to be the longest-living land animals

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On the island of Saint Helena (south of the Atlantic Ocean), there is a giant tortoise named "Jonathan", which was called "the oldest animal on Earth" by the Guinness Book of World Records.

According to a report published by Live Science, and based on the Guinness Book of Records, Jonathan, who was born in 1832, during the reign of Queen Victoria; She was 187 years old in 2019, and she was 80 when the Titanic sank deep in the North Atlantic.

 

Turtles are not alone
Based on scientific studies looking at the ages of animals that live on Earth, giant land turtles are the longest-lived land animals, but they are not the longest-lived on Earth.

Jordan Donini, a professor of biology and turtle ecologist at Florida Southwestern State College, tells Live Science; Jonathan and other giant tortoises aren't the only long-lived turtles.

"Sea turtles can live from 50 to 100 years, and box turtles live more than a century. Scientists don't know the maximum life span for many turtle species, simply because humans don't live long enough to know."

According to a later report - published on Live Science - although there are long-lived land animals such as giant turtles, the animals that live in the water are generally the longest.

 

Turtles are not alone
Based on scientific studies looking at the ages of animals that live on Earth, giant land turtles are the longest-lived land animals, but they are not the longest-lived on Earth.

Jordan Donini, a professor of biology and turtle ecologist at Florida Southwestern State College, tells Live Science; Jonathan and other giant tortoises aren't the only long-lived turtles.

"Sea turtles can live from 50 to 100 years, and box turtles live more than a century. Scientists don't know the maximum life span for many turtle species, simply because humans don't live long enough to know."

According to a later report - published on Live Science - although there are long-lived land animals such as giant turtles, the animals that live in the water are generally the longest.