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Zoological facilities offer people the rare chance to see some of the world’s most unique, oftentimes endangered, wildlife. Large exhibits that feature charismatic mammals— reticulated giraffes, African elephants, jaguars, great apes, cetaceans (though this, thankfully, is changing), etc. — are usually the fauna we synonymize with these wildlife parks. However… what if I were to tell you that San Francisco’s own California Academy of Sciences houses not only the oldest aquarium fish in the city but likely the entire country?
Meet Methuselah: the 90-plus-year-old Australian lungfish that came into San Francisco on a steamship from Queensland, Australia back in 1938. Read more
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