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	Is this the world's oldest living creature?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f91f682d-9945-407f-971f-43d7967da1c8/3F8147E8-CC47-4F5F-BE5F-1F4CFB7BCF74/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"><P class="info">
            <AUTHOR>By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor</AUTHOR>
<EM>Thursday, 4 December 2008</EM>
        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"><P>The span of history a giant tortoise can live through is vividly illustrated in this remarkable picture of two of the animals on the British island colony of St Helena in the year 1900.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"><P>The scene is thought to be the grounds of Plantation House, the St Helena governor's residence in the island capital of Jamestown, where three giant tortoises were brought as ornamental pets from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean in 1882. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"><P>The animals may have been 50 years old then, and so would be about 70 when the photo was taken – and one of the three, named Jonathan, is still alive. At a possible age of 175-plus he would be the world's oldest living animal. The previous oldest-known tortoise was thought to be Harriet, a giant Galapagos land tortoise who died, aged 175, in 2005 in Australia.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.independent.co.uk/img/0E25F395-EA90-4ABA-99FB-E6B615D875C3" alt="Jonathan the tortoise, At a possible age of 175-plus he would be the world?s oldest living animal" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-living-creature-1050578.html"> he has seen the coronation of eight British monarchs, from George IV to Elizabeth II, and a staggering 50 prime ministers.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3F8147E8-CC47-4F5F-BE5F-1F4CFB7BCF74/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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