The nonagenarian lungfish has lived in a tank in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco since 1938.
NY Times
By Soumya Karlamangla
Sept. 18, 2023
In the fall of 1938, the Golden Gate Bridge had been open for a year, the United States was still recovering from the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as president. World War II had yet to begin.
And in the cargo hold of a steamship, a young lungfish arrived from Australia to a new home at an aquarium in San Francisco.
She’s still alive today.
In a delightful piece of California trivia, what is believed to be the world’s oldest fish in human care can be found in Golden Gate Park, at the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences.
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