{"id":508014,"date":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:28:10","slug":"jonathan-the-tortoise-worlds-oldest-known-land-animal-dies-aged-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/508014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan the tortoise, world&#8217;s oldest known land animal, dies aged 193"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world&#8217;s oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, has died at an estimated age of 193, the vet who cared for him has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Heartbroken to share that our beloved Jonathan, the world&#8217;s oldest living land animal, has passed away today peacefully on St Helena&#8221;, Joe Hollins wrote on social media late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This gentle giant outlived empires, wars, and generations of humans,&#8221; Hollins said of his long-time charge, who is thought to have hatched around the year 1832.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent most of his life on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena, where he met Queen Elizabeth II, as well the Duke of Edinburgh and House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, has died at an estimated age of 193, the vet who cared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-508014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}