A 194-year-old tortoise, world’s oldest land animal, may hold clues to longer life

The world’s oldest-known terrestrial animal, an Aldabra giant tortoise named Jonathan and estimated to be about 194 years old, may owe his extraordinary longevity to a combination of genetic traits and an ability to keep ​key cellular systems functioning in a more youthful way,…

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