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Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) [2] [3] is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea).His approximate age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025, making him the oldest known living land animal.
Rod, an Egyptian vulture who lived at the Jurong Bird Park from 1971 to his death in 2022. Estimated to be 60 prior to his euthanasia, he may have been the oldest known individual of his species. [127] Nonja, a Sumatran orangutan, died at the age of 55 in December 2007. She was claimed to be the oldest-living orangutan of her species. [128]
The oldest known animal that may have been an amniote, a reptile rather than an amphibian, is Casineria [3] [4] (though it has also been argued to be a temnospondyl amphibian). [ 5 ] A series of footprints from the fossil strata of Nova Scotia , dated to 315 million years, show typical reptilian toes and imprints of scales. [ 6 ]
The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.
<p>Over the decades, Utah has proven to be a real hotspot for fossil hunters, and it just yielded yet another amazing find. There in the desert, the long-still remains of a flying reptile was ...
That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would rival some of the largest baleen whales alive today. The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can ...
Tuatara probably have the slowest growth rates of any reptile, [24] continuing to grow larger for the first 35 years of their lives. [9] The average lifespan is about 60 years, but they can live to be well over 100 years old; [9] tuatara could be the reptile with the second longest lifespan after tortoises.
Lagerpetidae (/ ˌ l æ dʒ ər ˈ p ɛ t ɪ d iː /; originally Lagerpetonidae) is a family of basal avemetatarsalians.Though traditionally considered the earliest-diverging dinosauromorphs (reptiles closer to dinosaurs than to pterosaurs), fossils described in 2020 suggest that lagerpetids may instead be pterosauromorphs (closer to pterosaurs).