The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man's claim that he is 140 years old - which would make him the oldest person ever to ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

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.

Lindsey Vonn becomes the oldest woman to podium at World Cup, placing second in the Super-G race at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Sunday, March 23.

If Mashico's age is verified, he would smash both those records, as well as that of the oldest person ever to have lived. The oldest officially-verified age a human has reached is 122 years and ...

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

Those of us fortunate to have been in the Thoroughbred industry for any length of time–whether with hands on horses daily or from behind a desk or from somewhere in between–have seen hundreds, and ...

as well as that of the oldest person ever to have lived. The oldest officially-verified age a human has reached is 122 years and 164 days. The phenomenal life was lived by a French woman called ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. The discovery revealed that early human ancestors ...