| ▲ | 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth(404media.co) |
| 103 points by gumby 9 hours ago | 39 comments |
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| ▲ | scun 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > 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 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I dunno, I think he's pretty charismatic. He has all these researchers wanting to spend time with him. | | |
| ▲ | scun 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure but biologists will talk to anything. You know what happened to the other tortoises? Bored to death. | |
| ▲ | PalmPilotProMax an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, but is he more charismatic than Bryan Johnson? Wait till he gets his hands on turtle semen and peptides |
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| ▲ | kspacewalk2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The hare really ought to take notes |
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| ▲ | Ancalagon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He doesn't look a day over 90! |
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| ▲ | F3nd0 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > He doesn't look a day over 90! He still has quite a ways to go to 1485715964481761497309522733620825737885569961284688766942216863704985393094065876545992131370884059645617234469978112000000000000000000000. :-) |
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| ▲ | usernametaken29 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hell yeah I’m down to become a turtle. Lay by the beach. Eat kelp. Awesome |
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| ▲ | throwaway2046 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://archive.ph/jHHYp |
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| ▲ | totetsu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why was the us space force involved? |
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| ▲ | gumby 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | He has a pm unusually large volume and has been around an unusually long time and they are the group responsible for anomalies in space-time. |
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| ▲ | calacatta 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Every couple Summers Me and a couple hunters Like to row in from the Isle of Astonishing M*erf*ers |
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| ▲ | stepwisecalc 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| ok |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | mrheosuper 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe leaving the water is a mistake... | | | |
| ▲ | epolanski 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's sharks out there that are much older than the United States. And sponges older than pyramids. | | |
| ▲ | stubish an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | And Orange Roughy, available in Australian fish and chip shops, spawned around the same time as the first British colony there. | |
| ▲ | loloquwowndueo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Older than the United States hahaha. Remember the saying : in the US, 100 years is a long time; in Europe, 100km is a long distance. | | |
| ▲ | autoexec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's still pretty long in the US.
Over an hour by car, and even for people who bicycle regularly riding a century is no joke. | | |
| ▲ | rootusrootus 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | By that same sort of metric, 100 years is a long time in Europe, too. Not too many people live that long. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How pedantic can we be? There are a number of countries in Europe younger than the United States... | |
| ▲ | tick_tock_tick 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Isn't the USA older then pretty much every country in Europe? Maybe the UK could be considered older depending on how you count it and San Marino is there but all the other major ones like Germany, Italy, France, Spain, etc aren't even 100. | | |
| ▲ | Scandiravian 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | How in the world can you claim that France is not even 100? The German empire was established in 1857, which is definitely more than 100 years ago; it's also not unreasonable to say that the HRE could be equated to the German state, that Spain is the continuation of Castille, and that the Roman empire can be considered the direct precursor to Italy There's a cultural through line for all these countries, often stretching back thousands of years, which means that they reach further back than the definition of the modern state | | |
| ▲ | higginsniggins 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | If you're gonna give them credit for stuff like that, then you need to at least give credit to the United States as far back as the Pilgrims in the 1600s. | |
| ▲ | BuyMyBitcoins 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Perhaps they referenced a source that only considers the French Fifth Republic as “France”? That would give it an age of 68. |
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| ▲ | bmitc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's interesting how arrogant Europeans can be towards the U.S. when they themselves seeded the U.S.! | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My Dad has a vacuum cleaner that is older than USA |
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| ▲ | antonvs 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Stephen Clark, an aging researcher Shouldn’t they find a younger researcher? |
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| ▲ | repeekad 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force. ...why space force? |
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| ▲ | sublinear 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's a remote area and USSF has operations in nearby Ascension Island. | |
| ▲ | fnordpiglet 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because Trump, Musk, et al are hoping to live forever but their lifestyle is not very forgiving - hence all haste. | | |
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| ▲ | verdverm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| he's so old, he's completely lost the hare /j |
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| ▲ | samudrijan 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden. |
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| ▲ | pil0u 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is? Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once. |
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| ▲ | fnordpiglet 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They did opt to swab his mouth rather than draw blood to minimize his discomfort. That seems like a pretty reasonable compromise for the value of learning and science | |
| ▲ | KylerAce 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because a spit swab is so invasive? |
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