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Press Release: Cal. Academy Reveals Age of World’s Oldest Living Aquarium Fish

The California Academy of Sciences is excited to reveal the age of beloved Australian lungfish Methuselah (Neoceratodus forsteri), the oldest living fish in an aquarium anywhere in the world. Cutting-edge DNA analysis led by Dr. Ben Mayne of CSIRO and Dr. David T. Roberts of Seqwater estimated Methuselah’s age to be 92 (± 9 years), older than her previously estimated age of 84.