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The Guinness Book of Records cites her as the world's oldest living animal, not far off smashing the all-time record of 188 years, set by another Galapagos tortoise, now deceased. Harriet, whose correct gender was established only a few decades ago, was born in 1830, when Charles Dickens was still an 18-year-old lad.
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Fossil traces found in an oil field on the Arabian Peninsula are the oldest evidence yet of animals, pushing back the known origins of higher life to more ... Until now, the oldest animal fossils dated to Earth’s next geological period, called the Ediacaran. Scientists had been unsure whether they reflected the actual...
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www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/earliestanimal/
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Then, roughly 600 million years ago, the first multi-cellular animals appeared on the scene, diversifying rapidly. The oldest known animal fossils in the world are preserved in South China's Doushantuo Formation. These fossil beds have no adult specimens — instead, many of the fossils appear to be microscopic embryos.
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www.livescience.com/animals/090727-first-life.html
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On the animal side of things, the brachiopod Lingulaa is probably the oldest, having existed nearly unchanged for over 500 million years, and the horseshoe crab (limulus) has been on the planet for several hundred million years, too.
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Harriet made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest living animal. However, a tortoise who died in India earlier this year, Addwaita, was said to be about 250 years old, according to the Calcutta zoo where he had been living since 1875.
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Addwaitya the giant tortoise is reckoned to have been 255 when he died at an Indian zoo - making him the oldest animal in the world. ... Show Strangest places to find santa - Top 10 Show Tiger Woods' car Show Rude Nature - the naughtiest from the animal kingdom...
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; World Records in the Animal Kingdom ... More great animal links; More World Records on Marine Life ... Oldest Living Thing...
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Harriet the giant Galápagos tortoise could be the oldest living animal on Earth. The reptile was born about 172 years ago, around 1830—that's 30 years before Abraham Lincoln was President!
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The record-breaking shellfish, 31 years older than the previous oldest animal, another clam, was caught last year when scientists from the Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences were dredging the seabed north of Iceland.
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