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SciShow Tangents

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 35

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

For our listeners on Patreon, we're entering a bonus science couch question.

0:23.4

Sam, what is our second question?

0:26.0

At Angry Face 01 on YouTube asks, do turtles really live more than 100 years?

0:32.3

Some do, right?

0:34.0

Yes, some definitely, yes.

0:35.9

So we've established that tortoises are turtles.

0:41.3

Tortoises, I think can live more than maybe any land animal.

0:47.9

Are they the top living land animal?

0:50.3

The record holder.

0:51.9

The record holder is a guy named Jonathan hatched in 1832.

0:57.9

And my man Jonathan is still alive.

1:00.3

He's still making?

1:01.8

Yeah.

1:02.5

We don't even know how long turtles can go for.

1:05.5

We don't know because he's still alive.

1:07.1

He's estimated to be a 191 or 2 as of 2024. He's the oldest living land animal.

1:14.0

They didn't mark down the day, just the year. Just the year. Yeah, I guess. I don't know whether

1:19.5

they captured him after birth or not. Yeah. Jonathan is quite old. Lonesome George, another famous

1:27.0

old guy. He was born around 1910 or so

1:31.6

and unfortunately died in 2012. He was the one in a lot of news stories. They can't, yes,

1:37.6

they can in fact die. Torturals are not immortal and was a Pinta Island tortoise.

1:47.1

And so he was the one where they were like advertising like, let's find George

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