The world’s oldest living land animal has died. Joe Hollins, a veterinarian who cares for the Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan, announced his death on X on Wednesday. Jonathan was estimated to be more than 193 years old.

An account on X/Twitter claimed that Jonathan, the 193-year-old tortoise, had died, but he's alive and well. It looks like it was a ruse to drive up interest in a meme coin.

The world used to be full of giant tortoises, and the ones that live on the Seychelles and Galápagos islands are all we have left. But how did these big reptiles get to the islands in the first place?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reptiles were imported from the Galapagos islands by aristocrats and eaten as a delicacy - Rodrigo Buendia/AFP A guide on how to cook and serve a giant tortoise is among a slew of ...

In February, conservationists released 158 young tortoises onto Floreana Island in the Galapagos. The Floreana tortoise subspecies had long been thought extinct, but the discovery of close relatives on another island made a captive breeding effort possible.

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s famed Galapagos archipelago where they disappeared

On February 20, 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises, each with DNA from the long-extinct Floreana giant tortoise species, were released on Floreana in the Galápagos archipelago. Researchers accidentally discovered tortoises with the Floreana species DNA ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo is welcoming two of the world's largest tortoise species. The giant tortoise exhibit featuring Galapagos and Aldabra tortoises will open Memorial Day Weekend 2025. "Guests will have opportunities to come face-to-face ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher tortoises of the Southeast that dig long underground ...