Harriet the Tortoise just passed away, at the estimated age of 176. She was housed in the Australia Zoo in southeast Queensland; she suffered a heart attack. Apparently she spent some time at the Botanical Gardens in Brisbane starting the mid 19th century, and was a star attraction there, taking kids on joy rides. She was unfortunately banished when the botanists finally got tired of her munching on the rare plants.

Apparently she was named Harry for the first century and some more of her life, only to be found as female comparatively recently. She is also the tortoise that Charles Darwin allegedly brought back from the Galapagos, but genetic testing currently disputes that.