The oldest aquarium fish in the world is at least 90 years old and lives in San Fran
The oldest aquarium fish in the world is at least 90 years old and lives in San Francisco...
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When Methuselah the lungfish arrived at the Steinhart Aquarium in 1938, Al Capone was locked up in Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge had been open less than a year and Willie Mays was 6 years old.
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Methuselah’s exact age isn’t known, but it’s believed to be at least 90 years old; the oldest living fish in a zoological setting. California Academy of Sciences Senior Biologist Allan Jan says he doesn’t think much about all that. As the fish’s keeper, he’s more worried about whether Methuselah will eat her figs today — she’ll only eat when they’re in season, and not if they’re frozen and thawed.
“She’s picky,” Jan says. “And being that old, I allow her to be picky.”
Methuselah is special for reasons other than her age and proclivity for fresh fruit. Lungfish are “living fossils,” which can breathe on land and in water. The lungfish’s evolutionary advantages include the ability to survive in mud until rains return and use limb-like pectoral fins to shuffle from pond-to-pond.
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