Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs.

Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk, created the entire collection by hand over more than five decades. Standing just 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighing under 100 pounds, Zoettl spent his days ...

Human beings have been growing their own food for thousands of years. This fruit may have been the very first fruit we ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is shining a light on a new member of a famous feathered family—that of the world’s oldest ...

Michigan’s oldest resident, Bonita Gibson, who lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, the rise of modern ...

In Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, where corner taverns are stitched into the cultural fabric of the South Side, Shinnick's Pub stands as a living piece of the city's past. Open since 1938, the bar ...

The woman believed to be Michigan's oldest living resident, Bonita B. Gibson, has died at the age of 114. "Bonita was the oldest living person in the State of Michigan. She was the second oldest in ...

Dale Steele, of Pierce, Neb., who died on Feb. 11, became the oldest organ donor in the U.S., when his liver saved another person’s life ...

In 2011, newlyweds Rosa Pollard and Forrest Lunsway set a Guinness World Record for the oldest newlyweds. At the time, ...

What started as a search for the oldest person in the world turned into a journey of self-discovery. An interest in the phenomena of life and death inspired director Sam Green to begin filming “The ...

Long before kennel clubs and social media trends, certain dogs were already woven into human life as hunters, guardians, and camp companions. Genetic research often groups several of them among ...