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A 150-year-old giant Galapagos tortoise named Speed has been put down at San Diego Zoo in California.

Speed had been in geriatric decline for some time.

Keepers at the zoo had used acupuncture and hydrotherapy to treat his arthritis and other ailments.Speed the tortoise dead at 150

Finally, a decision was made on June 19 to euthanize the 670 lb tortoise.

Speed had been brought to California in 1933 as part of a program to preserve the endangered species from the Volcan Cerro Azul island of the Galapagos, off Ecuador.

Thirteen Galapagos tortoises remain at the zoo.

The group has produced more than 90 offspring which can be found in many other zoos.

Many of them have been sired by Speed.

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Scientists found out a clam they discovered a few years ago was the oldest living animal ever.

But they have also confessed that they accidentally killed it when they opened it up to see how old it was.

Ming the clam was thought to be around 405 years old when it was found by researchers in Iceland in 2006.

Ming the clam was thought to be around 405 years old when it was found by researchers in Iceland in 2006

Ming the clam was thought to be around 405 years old when it was found by researchers in Iceland in 2006

However, more recent dating methods have determined that Ming was actually 507 years old. That means the mollusk made its way into the world around 1499, which explains how it got its posthumous name. Ming was the Chinese dynasty in power when the clam was born.

“We got [the age] wrong the first time, and maybe we were a bit hasty publishing our findings back then,” ocean scientist Paul Butler from Bangor University told ScienceNordic.

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