Jonathan’s caretakers maintain a balanced diet for him, consisting of various plants, grasses, leaves, and fruits, essential ...

Shutterstock Photo There are a lot of old animals in our world. Animals like crocodiles, sharks, and sea turtles even have ...

With lifespans stretching far beyond human comprehension, creatures like the hydra, Greenland shark and Aldabra tortoise ...

Jonathan, a giant tortoise from Seychelles, celebrated his 191st birthday this year, becoming the world's oldest land animal.

Like many threatened land turtle species, the spur-thighed tortoise had no complete genome. Now for the first time, ...

Police in England would like to speak with anyone who's missing some giant tortoises, or "knows of anyone who normally has a large number of tortoises but has fewer now." Israel and Lebanon's ...

The nameless giant was gifted to the zoo just over three years ago ... We once measured its weight and it was nearly 80 kilogrammes,” he added. Because tortoises are land-based – as opposed to their ...

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has made friends with the world's oldest living land animal - a giant tortoise named Jonathan. Sir Lindsay presented a Guinness World Record certificate to the ...

The two new discoveries make a total of nine giant tortoises found in ... said officers. Two of the tortoises were found on National Trust land on 8 January, and another five were found later ...

Jonathan the Tortoise, born in 1832, is recognized as the oldest known living land animal. Currently residing on Saint Helena ...

Several giant tortoises have been found dead in woodland ... The National Trust confirmed the animals were found on its land on the Killerton Estate. It said: "Teams were horrified to discover ...