World’s oldest tortoise very much alive despite death rumors

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LONDON (AP) — Reports of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a nearly 200-year-old tortoise — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan, believed to be 193, is still kicking — albeit slowly — on the island of St. Helena. “It was a hoax,” Anne Dillon, head of communications on the island, told The Associated Press on Thursday about his alleged passing. “I don’t have all those details, I can just assure you that he is very much alive.” News of the tortoise’s demise spread rapidly on soci