Jonathan the Tortoise Becomes the World’s Oldest Known Land Animal at 194:
There are few living creatures who can claim to have witnessed nearly two centuries of the human history. Out of them Jonathan, it is a Seychelles giant tortoise living on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena has done exactly like that. Its estimated age is 194 years and he is now officially recognized as the world’s oldest known terrestrial animal and the oldest turtle ever recorded on the record.He was born around the year 1832 and he has lived through some of the history’s most transformative periods.Jonathan belongs to the species of the Seychelles giant tortoise which is one of the largest tortoise species in the world.
