Harriet the tortoise, the world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176. The giant Galapagos tortoise died of a suspected heart attack. She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Recor...
A giant tortoise that has been dubbed the world's oldest living creature may actually be an imposter, living under an assumed identity, it has emerged. It had been reported that Jonathan, a present-day resident of St Helena, was living on the remote British island when Napoleon was exiled there bac...