Marcelino “Mashico” Abad Tolentino — who is just 4’3″ tall — is believed to be the world’s oldest person after he turned 125 ...

The oldest person to ever live, Jeanne Calment reached the age of 122 before dying in her hometown of Arles, France in 1997.

Oldest Ever Genetic Data of Ancient Human Relative Found in a 2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Excites Archaeologists Genetic information from fossils helps researchers trace the eventful journey that ...

The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim to be 140 years old – which, if verified, would make him the oldest person ...

The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man's claim that he is 140 years old - which would make him the oldest person ever to have lived. Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country's eastern Khost ...

helping scientists piece together the complex story of human evolution. Here, we take a closer look at five of the oldest fossils that have helped shape our understanding of where we came from.

which would make him the longest-living person in known human history and the world's currest oldest living individual. Aqel Nazir lives in the eastern Khost province of Afghanistan and claims ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...