17 Animals That Are Probably Older Than Your Grandparents Fun Love
These animals are like fine wines: They get better with age.
George, the giant lobster, is alleged to be around 140 years old based on his weight (20 lbs). That means George was born around the same time as Harry Houdini.
Here's what a 22-lb. lobster looks like.
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Henry, the roughly 115-year-old tuatara. If his age estimate is correct, Henry was born the same year as Al Capone.
After some minor difficulties in 2009, Henry managed to produce offspring with another tuatara named Mildred at the age of 111. After all these years, he's still got it!
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Geoducks are a type of clam that have been known to live as long as 168 years. That means that the oldest known geoduck was born the same year that the Liberty Bell cracked.
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Here's Jonathan, the 182-year-old giant tortoise. That means he was born around the time that Gustave Eiffel, the architect and engineer who helped build the Eiffel Tower, was born.
Here's Jonathan in 1900ish!
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