The oldest animals in the world: How long can an animal really live? It's a question that fascinates many of us, especially since scientists keep finding out about the amazing lifespans of animals all over the world. New discoveries, such as the ongoing ...

Arctic giants, bowhead whales, possess incredible adaptations for survival in freezing, ice-covered waters. Their massive size, thick blubber, and uni

Aging brings about a range of changes—often unwelcome—to our bodies: sagging skin, graying or thinning hair, and a decline in muscle strength and vitality. But aging also affects us on the inside, altering proteins and other biomolecules in ways that increase our risk of developing chronic diseases—such as cancer,

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen.

This composite image from the book “Borneo, Memory of the Caves” shows the world’s oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of 40,000 years, in a limestone cave in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Scientists say the red silhouette of ...

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Peptides may be able to survive in the enamel of teeth that are tens of millions of years old. Two independent studies have reported on proteins found in ancient teeth, have provided the oldest sequences useful for working out evolutionary relationships ...