If life is a contest, the way the folks at Guinness World Records seem to treat it, how exactly does one win? Is it by ...

A filmmaker’s obsession with mortality led him on a years-long global odyssey. Here’s what he learned.

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

Brazilian research team investigates protective factors in extraordinary people who survived COVID-19 without vaccines and remained independent past age 110 The Brazilian supercentenarians had no ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment over a hand pressed against the rock, are visible on cave walls beneath ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living ...

Scientists are uncovering why Brazil may be one of the most important yet underused resources for studying extreme longevity.

Melbourne, Jan 22 (The Conversation) When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) — The birthday balloons still float in the air in Chuck Kavalec’s living room from the celebration earlier this month: his 107th birthday. Born in 1918, when Woodrow Wilson ...

Faint ochre outlines of hands thought to be at least 67,800 years old are the oldest rock art yet discovered. Archaeologists ...

Nasir bin Radan Al-Rashid Al-Wadaei, believed to be Saudi Arabia’s oldest living citizen, has passed away at the age of 142, ...