Austin American-Statesman

'Bones all over': UT paleontologist finds 100,000-year-old fossils in Central Texas cave

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

World's oldest known tortoise still very much alive despite rumor to the contrary

LONDON (AP) — Reports on April Fools' Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit ...
news10nbc

World’s oldest known tortoise still very much alive despite rumor to the contrary

LONDON (AP) — Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit ...
KCTV News

Jonathan, the world’s oldest tortoise, is alive and well after false reports that he died

LONDON (AP) — Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit ...
CNN

World’s oldest known tortoise still very much alive and (slowly) kicking despite rumor to the contrary

Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. “It was a hoax,” Anne Dillon, head of ...
Associated Press

World’s oldest known tortoise still very much alive despite rumor to the contrary

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jonathan the tortoise, believed to be 193, is ...
AOL

World's oldest known land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, still alive at nearly 200

Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Jonathan the tortoise had died. Despite claims of his death spreading on social media, the world's oldest known ...
MLive

World’s oldest tortoise has seen wars, met royals and just survived a viral death hoax

The world’s oldest living land animal has survived long enough to become the victim of an online scam. Numerous publications – including the BBC, USA Today and MLive – published a story Wednesday ...
thisisthecoast

Jonathan, the giant tortoise, the world's oldest living land animal 'is alive' after getting caught up in alleged crypto scam

A giant Seychelles tortoise, believed to be the world’s oldest living land animal, is alive and well after claims he had died turned out to be part of an alleged crypto scam. Posts emerged on ...
Yahoo

World's oldest known tortoise still alive, as reports of death revealed as hoax

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [PA Media] The world's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, is still alive, contrary to a widely circulated social media post which ...
Houston Chronicle

Fact Check: Is Jonathan — the tortoise a century older than Houston’s Mr. Pickles — dead?

An X post announcing the death of Jonathan, a tortoise estimated to be about 194-year-old who lives in the British Overseas Territory of St. Helena, went viral Wednesday. But it wasn't the truth. The ...