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In 2017, Methuselah was unofficially designated as the oldest living aquarium fish following the death of Granddad, another Australian lungfish residing at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, then estimated to be 95 years old. [10] A later study estimated Granddad to have been 109 years old at the time of his death. [11]
Methuselah is a 4-foot-long, 40-pound Australian lungfish that was brought to the San Francisco museum in 1938 from Australia. Meet Methuselah, the oldest living aquarium fish [Video] Skip to main ...
An Australian lungfish named "Granddad" at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago was the oldest living fish in any Aquarium, and was already an adult when he was first placed on display in 1933; Granddad was estimated to be at least in his eighties, and possibly over one-hundred, at the time of his death on February 5, 2017. [33]
The government said fossil records show the Australian lungfish has been around for 100 million years. It is also a relatively heavy fish, weighing on average about 88 pounds.
As of 2022, the oldest lungfish, and probably the oldest aquarium fish in the world is "Methuselah", an Australian lungfish 4 feet (1.2 m) long and weighing around 40 pounds (18 kg). Methuselah is believed to be female, unlike its namesake , and is estimated to be over 90 years old.
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The Tingamarra Fauna is associated with the early Eocene Murgon fossil site, and contains the earliest known non-flying eutherian, passerine, trionychidae turtles, mekosuchine crocodiles along with frogs, lungfish and teleost fish in Australia. [1] The Murgon fossil site is located near Kingaroy in south-east Queensland (26° 14' S, 151° 57' E).
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