November 24, 2009 7:15 PM

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World’s oldest sheep dies in Australia

The world's oldest sheep has died in Australia at the age of 23, twice the normal life expectancy. Lucky, a Polwarth-Dorchester cross, succumbed to a weeklong record heat wave. Lucky hit the Guinness record in 2007 and was a celebrity in her hometown of Lake Bolac, near Melbourne. The ewe died on Monday at the farm where she had been found as a little lamb.

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