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RIP! Oldest serf lungfish ‘Granddad’ euthanised in his mid-90s
- Updated: February 7, 2017
Granddad. Pic/YouTube screengrab
The longest-living fish in a zoological setting, a lungfish famous as ‘Granddad’ was euthanised after pang unwell health good in his mid-90s.
Granddad was acquired by a Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in 1933.
Granddad, who came to Shedd from Australia in expectation of a 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair, was seen by some-more than 104 million people during his time in Chicago, aquarium boss Bridget Coughlin pronounced in a matter announcing his death.
“For a fish who spent most of his time imitating a depressed log, he sparked curiosity, fad and consternation among guest of all ages who would hear his story and learn about a implausible biology that creates his class a vital hoary and one of a oldest vital vertebrate genera on a planet,” Coughlin said.
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According to a aquarium, lungfish, that can live to be some-more than 100 years aged and are a stable class in Australia, have existed for scarcely 400 million years and fossils uncover they have remained unvaried for over 100 million years.
A Shedd mouthpiece pronounced Granddad’s accurate age was different though that he was believed to be in his mid-90s. The aquarium pronounced Granddad was euthanised after it started losing seductiveness in food and showed signs of organ failure.
Lungfish, that are local to a Mary and Burnett rivers in Queensland, Australia, have a singular obsolete lung and are among a few fish that can breathe air.