The oldest recorded tortoise was Tu'i Malila, who died in 1965 aged 188. The tortoise in the image was named Harriet, and was the third oldest recorded tortoise.
With an estimated birth year of 1832, Jonathan was alive for the invention of the safety pin, the telephone, and the roller coaster. Here, he is photographed in 1902 and today, on the South Pacific Island of Saint Helena.
Described as the first “truly feasible” contraption to reduce ocean plastic, this little wheel has been clearing rubbish out of Baltimore's harbour since May.
This family tree illustrates the lineages of Indo-European and Uralic languages though-out human history, and how some of the world's most-used languages came to be. And it's pretty enough to put on your wall.
