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"Methuselah isn’t like most fish. She seems to like belly rubs and chin
scratches and dines on restaurant-grade prawns and ripe, seasonal figs. She
also has both lungs and gills, and she’s about 90 years old.
Methuselah—named for the Biblical patriarch said to have lived 969 years—is a
lungfish, a species thought to be the evolutionary link between fish and
amphibians. She arrived at the California Academy of Sciences in 1938; no one
knows exactly how old she was then. In the 84 years since she has grown to a
length of four feet and weighs a massive 25 pounds.
She has outlived Granddad, a 95-year-old lungfish that resided at Shedd
Aquarium in Chicago until 2017, and is now the oldest aquarium fish in the
United States and perhaps even the world.
Atlas Obscura talked to
Methuselah’s longtime caretaker, biologist Allan Jan, about how to care for a
sweet old fish with gourmet tastes."
Via Muse, who wrote "Fun story!"
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