Saturn, an alligator falsely rumored for decades to have been kept as a pet by Adolf Hitler, has died in captivity at the age of about 84 years old, the Moscow Zoo in Russia announced Saturday.
The Moscow Zoo said in a statement that the alligator died Friday of natural causes at an “extremely respectable age” well beyond the reptile’s average life expectancy of 30 to 50 years.
Born in Mississippi in 1936, Saturn was brought to Germany at an early age and kept for years at the Berlin Zoological Garden allegedly frequented by the notorious former Nazi leader during his lifetime.
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