Methuselah (captured 1938; born as early as 1922) is an Australian lungfish residing at the Steinhart Aquarium. She is known for being the oldest living fish in captivity as of 2023.

While she won’t come anywhere close to her biblical namesake’s fabled age of 969, our beloved Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is officially the oldest living fish in human care.

Aug 5, 2025 · But Methuselah is no ordinary lungfish. She’s a cranky old broad who knows what she wants and how to get it. We know this because we talked to her primary caretaker, biologist Laura …

Sep 21, 2023 · In November 1938, an Australian lungfish named Methuselah arrived at San Francisco’s Steinhart Aquarium aboard an ocean liner. At that time, the United States was just recovering from …

Sep 22, 2024 · And, on a steamship that puffed all the way from Australia to San Francisco, you would have found a juvenile lungfish, later named Methuselah, that would settle in for the better part of a...

Feb 23, 2024 · Methuselah, a female Australian lungfish at San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, has always been a favorite with locals. But she has achieved global fame since September 2023, after …

Feb 1, 2022 · Methuselah—named for the Biblical patriarch said to have lived 969 years—is a lungfish, a species thought to be the evolutionary link between fish and amphibians.

Sep 20, 2023 · Methuselah, a female Australian lungfish tanked at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, is at least 92 years old, the academy said in a press release.

Sep 22, 2023 · The world's oldest aquarium fish, a lungfish named Methuselah, may actually be decades older than researchers originally thought and may even be over 100 years old, a new study …

Jan 26, 2022 · Until a few years ago, the oldest Australian lungfish was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. But that fish, named Granddad, died in 2017 at the age of 95. "By default, Methuselah is …