She was hatched when Queen Victoria was still a teenager... 1830 - 2006
HER skin is wrinkled and she's carrying a few extra pounds, but there's still a twinkle in the old girl's eyes.
In fact she's in uncommonly good shape for someone who was born before Victoria came to the throne.
Harriet, a giant Galapagos Land tortoise and the world's oldest living creature, was celebrated her 176th birthday on November 15, 2006
Harriet the turtle, the oldest known animal in the world, has died at the age of 176 in Australia.
"She had a very fairly acute heart attack and thankfully passed away quietly overnight," Dr. John Hangar of the Australia Zoo said
The famed giant Galapagos land tortoise, who weighed 150 kilograms, had been recognized by the Guinness World Records book as the oldest living chelonian, or tortoise. The zoo said she was the oldest living animal in the world.
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