Goodbye to a Legendary Tortoise Harriet, a 330-pound tortoise, dies at age 176 A 176-year-old giant tortoise named Harriet died Friday at a zoo in Australia. Harriet, who weighed around 330 pounds, died of heart failure. Harriet's owner, Steve Irwin, hosts the Animal Planet network's popular show The Crocodile Hunter. Irwin and his wife, Terri, mourned Harriet's death. "She is possibly one of the oldest living creatures on the planet and her passing today is not only a real loss for the world but a very sad day for my family," Irwin said. The Tortoise's Tale Harriet was believed to be the world's oldest living tortoise and one of the oldest living creatures on earth. But despite her remarkably long life, Harriet was not the world's oldest known tortoise. That title is held by Tui Malila, a Madagascar radiated tortoise who lived to be 188 years old. Tui Malila died in 1965 and earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category of Oldest
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