'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

8 comments

• scun 1 hour ago
  > The results revealed that Jonathan has “unique gene variants in most aging pathways” including DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and “low entropy” methylation, reports the study.

  min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma

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  • luipugs 42 minutes ago
    I dunno, I think he's pretty charismatic. He has all these researchers wanting to spend time with him.
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    • scun 21 minutes ago
      Sure but biologists will talk to anything. You know what happened to the other tortoises? Bored to death.
• antonvs 10 minutes ago
  > Stephen Clark, an aging researcher

  Shouldn’t they find a younger researcher?
• Ancalagon 1 hour ago
  He doesn't look a day over 90!
• samudrijan 1 hour ago
  In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.
• verdverm 31 minutes ago
  he's so old, he's completely lost the hare /j
• dyauspitr 1 hour ago
  Interesting so the oldest land animal hasn’t cracked 200 but stuff that lives in the sea can go for five or 600 years or more.
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  • epolanski 1 hour ago
    There's sharks out there that are much older than the United States.

    And sponges older than pyramids.
• repeekad 52 minutes ago
  > the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force.

  ...why space force?

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  • fnordpiglet 1 minute ago
    Because Trump, Musk, et al are hoping to live forever but their lifestyle is not very forgiving - hence all haste.
  • sublinear 40 minutes ago
    It's a remote area and USSF has operations in nearby Ascension Island.
• pil0u 1 hour ago
  Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is?

  Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.