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A heartfelt social media campaign sparked a huge response after a pair of cats were relinquished at the age of 21. The "senior kittizens," believed to be the oldest living cat ...

Hiromu Inada, 87, already has a certificate on his wall that confirms his status as the world's oldest ...

At 96, Giuseppe Paterno has faced many tests in life—childhood poverty, war and, more recently, the global pandemic. ...

On a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic, there lives a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan, who ...

A sweet senior rescue dog has become the oldest golden retriever on record after celebrating her 20th birthday, ...

The world's biggest dog, a 7-foot great Dane named Freddy, might just be able to lay claim to ...

A couple who married in 1939 claimed the title of oldest living couple in the world according to ...

NORTH BAY, ON.—Canada's oldest woman, whose longevity and zest for life won her national attention—and an admiring nod ...

Famous for holding the title as the world's oldest person, the French woman Jeanne Calment, may have been ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest intact shipwreck, at 2,400 years old, in ...

An international team of researchers made a record-breaking discovery. While digging in Portugal, they found a 400,000-year-old human ...

Jia Jia was given to the Ocean Park zoo in Hong Kong as a gift 17 years ago.

Researchers in Scotland have unveiled the skeleton of a 164-million-year-old fossil known as the Storr Lochs Monster which ...

Scientists have long wondered when life began on Earth. The oldest fossil evidence had previously been dated to ...

A man in Indonesia is claiming to be 145 years old which would make him the oldest living ...

In 1901, divers exploring off the coast of Greece came upon a vast sunken treasure, and amidst the ...

Guinness World Records recently announced Scooter, a 30-year-old Siamese living in Texas, has been confirmed as the planet’s ...

520-million-year-old fossils belonging to a shrimp-like crustacean are deemed extraordinary due to how much of the creature's central ...

A flower found in up to 30-million-year-old fossilized amber has been confirmed as a unique Asterid species, as ...

Researchers examining the prehistoric drawings in the famed Chauvet-Pont D’Arc cave believe they have found evidence of the ...

A significant dinosaur discovery has been made in Wales. A recently published study states that the 201-million-year old ...

Archaeologists have dug up the remains of a 6th-century man with a wooden foot, making their discovery the ...

A recent study describes the examination of a set of 13,800-year-old rock carvings in Spain that are believed ...

Archaeologists undertook a restoration project to uncover the oldest-known European Christian church in the tropics.

Radiocarbon dating has determined that a manuscript held by the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham, ...