Comment by samatman
5 years ago
The Testudine lineage is more than 200 million years old.
I'm confident that some tortoise, somewhere, lived in isolated splendour longer than Jonathan. It's just a numbers game, holding 190 up against 200 million and squinting a bit.
Not to take anything away from the old fellow! He's earned his laurels.
They even mentioned a 250 y.o. (nwow dead) Tortoise in the article
No, the other tortoise mentioned lived to 188.
There is a 3rd tortoise mentioned supposed to have lived 255 years old whose age was however unconfirmed.