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'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

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Comments (65)

  • thelastgallon
    We don’t need to cure death. Just hair loss and old skin, it will create 50T market cap in new companies.
  • echelon_musk
    I wonder where else the oldest land animal could be, if not on Earth?
  • scun
    > 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
  • usernametaken29
    Hell yeah I’m down to become a turtle. Lay by the beach. Eat kelp. Awesome
  • throwaway2046
  • frereubu
    No point staying alive if you're not healthy. This is a great podcast about the difference between lifespan and healthspan: "To start our new series about what it means to live in a world of ageing populations, David talks to geneticist Adam Rutherford about the benefits and pitfalls of increasing longevity. Are GLP-1s – drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro – miracle cures that will extend human lifespans? What happens if longer lives do not coincide with better health? How far can life extension be pushed? And who wants to live forever anyway?" https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/an-ageing-world-lifespan-v...
  • totetsu
    Why was the us space force involved?
  • dyauspitr
    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.
  • rectang
    > He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying DeathThe struggles for limited resources among humans marooned in a finite ecosystem will not allow us to defy death. When natural causes no longer reduce our numbers sufficiently, we will be winnowed through an unceasing epidemic of violence. So long as there are births, there will be deaths.If you thought the carnival of dementia brought about by modern medicine's gradual reduction of quick death was grim, just wait until medicine solves natural death entirely.Tortoises who give up their secrets to humans won't survive the cataclysm.
  • calacatta
    Every couple SummersMe and a couple huntersLike to row in from the Isle ofAstonishing M*erf*ers
  • Ancalagon
    He doesn't look a day over 90!
  • antonvs
    > Stephen Clark, an aging researcherShouldn’t they find a younger researcher?
  • repeekad
    > the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force....why space force?
  • verdverm
    he's so old, he's completely lost the hare /j
  • SwtCyber
    [dead]
  • stepwisecalc
    ok
  • samudrijan
    In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.
  • pil0u
    Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is?Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.