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Jonathan the giant tortoise genome sequenced at 194

Rank
Running
8h
Updated
5h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
3

+0

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · Română (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 8 hours.

2 4 6
0h 2h 4h 6h 8h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Guardian, 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: United States, with New York Times.
  3. Second region: Americas, with New York Times.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC.
  5. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

9 of 9 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%17%50%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. The Guardian 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC
  2. New York Times +0m
  3. El País +0m
  4. CNA +7m
  5. CTV News +2h 1m

Latest arrivals

  1. HotNews 7 Oct, 21:10 UTC
  2. CTV News 7 Oct, 20:00 UTC
  3. CNA 7 Oct, 18:07 UTC
  4. El País 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC
  5. New York Times 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Singapore. Europe 3: Romania, Spain, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Guardian, 7 Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 18:10 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 21:10 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
2.46, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
7 Oct 2026 146 5.43 6 6 6 6 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 18:10 UTC · Updated 21:10 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • CTV News Canada 7 Oct, 20:00 UTC
    A 194-year-old tortoise, world’s oldest land animal, may hold clues to longer life
  • New York Times United States 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC
    Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced.

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • CNA Singapore 7 Oct, 18:07 UTC
    A 194-year-old tortoise, world's oldest land animal, may hold clues to longer life

Europe 3 outlets

  • HotNews Romania 7 Oct, 21:10 UTC
    Legătura dintre o broască țestoasă uriașă și secretul longevității. Ce au descoperit cercetătorii
  • El País Spain 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC
    La tortuga ‘Jonathan’ tiene 194 años y en sus genes se esconden los secretos de la longevidad
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 7 Oct, 18:00 UTC
    Jonathan the giant tortoise, 194, offers up insight into secrets of longevity
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