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Guinness World Records

July 2024

  • a yellow school bus

    World’s oldest bus driver stays behind the wheel in part to donate to charity

  • A teenage boy wearing a white button-down with a blue design and two braids smiles

    Lakota teen who set world record with hair says he is proud to represent tribe

June 2024

  • Kevin, a Great Dane who stands at 3ft 2in and comes from West Des Moines, Iowa, achieved the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest dog.

    Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies at age three: ‘He was the best giant boy’

    Great dane, named after the protagonist of the Home Alone film series, died after falling ill and undergoing unplanned surgery
  • A black Great Dane stands on its hind legs, with its front paw resting on the shoulders of a smiling white man wearing a purple polo shirt, jeans and a baseball cap on a grassy lawn - the dog's head is higher than the man's.

    The world’s tallest dog is an adorable scaredy cat, his owners say

    Kevin, a great dane from Iowa, is the same height as a three-year-old – but can’t stand up to his family’s vacuum cleaner
  • A man dressed similarly to Indiana Jones holds up fossilized poop.

    ‘Curiosity’ fuels world’s most prolific fossilized poop collector

    George Frandsen’s Poozeum in Arizona features nearly 10,000 coprolites – fossilized feces originating in Earth’s distant past

May 2024

  • At mere 10 days old, the American steer Romeo was saved from the slaughter by animal sanctuary owners Misty and Robert Moore.

    Romeo was saved from slaughter. He’s now the world’s tallest steer

    Romeo, who stands at 6ft 4.5in, unseated Tommy of Cheshire, Massachusetts, to claim the title
  • Man wearing goggles and helmet with sky in the background

    Texas man reclaims world’s oldest skydiver record at 106 years old

    Alfred ‘Al’ Blaschke, who first broke the Guinness World Record for at 103 in 2020, reached an altitude of 9,000ft in November
  • A baker holds a baguette inside a bakery in Paris, France, while wearing a facemask

    France reclaims world record after baking baguette measuring 140.53m

    Parisian bakers have claimed victory over rivals in Italy who created a baguette almost 133 metres long in 2019

April 2024

  • Lois Gibson - Most Criminals Identified By An Artist Guinness World Records 2024

    AI can’t beat my composite sketches, says record-breaking police artist

    Lois Gibson, whose sketches have helped to identify more than 1,300 suspects, says technology can not do the job as effectively
  • Larry McDonnell and Jessica Burns-McDonnell have a height difference of nearly 3ft.

    Person on the inside matters most, says US couple with record height difference

    Jessica Burns-McDonnell from West Virginia and Larry McDonnell took over the world record from a UK-based couple
  • John Tinniswood with fish and chips

    Briton says becoming world’s oldest man at 111 is ‘pure luck’

    John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born in 1912 in Liverpool, acquired the title after Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez, 114, died in April

March 2024

  • Chris Lewis receiving his award from the Guinness World Records’ managing editor Adam Millward on beach with other lifeguards in background

    Bournemouth man sets Guinness World Record as longest-serving lifeguard

  • Don Gorske surrounded by Big Macs in 2021.

    US man extends record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime to over 34,000

February 2024

  • People gather round the matchstick Eiffel Tower in a building in Saujon, France.

    Eiffel Tower crowned as world’s tallest matchstick building after record U-turn

    Guinness World Records initially said 7.2-metre structure made from more than 700,000 matches broke rules

January 2024

  • Imogen West-Knights

    Who cares if Bobi is the oldest dog in the world? I do – and I’m glad I’m not alone

    Imogen West-Knights
    Guinness must rule on whether he should keep or be stripped of his world record. I’m touched by the formal, goofy dignity of it all, says writer Imogen West-Knights
  • Bobi pictured sitting on a lawn with his tongue out in February 2023

    ‘World’s oldest dog’ title under review as claim is investigated

    Bobi the Portuguese mastiff held Guinness world record when he died at apparent age of 31 last October
  • Grand Canyon - North Rim<br>Sunset over Cape Royal, North Rim, Arizona

    Man aged 92 becomes oldest person to hike Grand Canyon rim to rim

    Alfredo Aliaga Burdio says achievement shows it’s never too late as he only started living healthily in his mid-70s

December 2023

  • Harpreet Chandi on south pole ski expedition

    British soldier claims record for fastest woman to ski alone to south pole

    Capt Harpreet Chandi ‘so glad’ after covering 1,130km of Antarctic ice in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes
  • Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons magnetized to his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Most spoons on a human body" in Tbilisi

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2023: The strange survival of Guinness World Records – podcast

    From June: For more than half a century, one organisation has been cataloguing all of life’s superlatives. But has it gone from being about the pursuit of knowledge to simply another big business? By Imogen West-Knights
  • GT Karber.

    Murder mystery puzzle book Murdle tops UK Christmas bestseller chart

    GT Karber’s book of challenges beats Richard Osman’s The Last Devil to Die and Guinness World Records to top spot
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