Timeline Harriet the tortoise outlived Darwin

Harriet the tortoise outlived Darwin 2

• 1809 – 1882 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
• 1830 – 2006 Harriet the tortoise -- 176 years A Galapagos tortoise said to have been collected by Darwin Harriet, a Galapagos giant tortoise, died at Australia Zoo on 23 June 2006 at an estimated age of 175 or 176. She was long said to have been collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage in 1835, though the attribution is disputed -- Darwin never visited the island her subspecies came from. If the story holds, she outlived him by 124 years.