WASHINGTON -- More than a dozen animals live longer than we do. A new study estimates that at least one Greenland shark lived about 392 years, making it the longest-living animal with a backbone. Here ...

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A new analysis of the eyes of some of the longest-lived animals on Earth could provide molecular clues about long-lasting vision. A team of researchers from the US, Switzerland, and Denmark has now ...

Aging has fascinated scientists for decades, and researchers are increasingly looking to nature for answers. Some animals have evolved extraordinary biological systems that allow them to live far ...

Human activities like coal burning and gold mining can cause mercury pollution in the air, which eventually settles into water, where it is absorbed into the food chain and results in the risk of ...

I was wondering, as I began working on this story, whether to eat my subject as part of the research. I imagined a bold opening: “This is the longest-lived animal in the world – and it tastes great.” ...

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Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s most impressive longevity experiments. Giant tortoises are redefining what ...

A humble mollusk can live to 507. The oldest Greenland sharks navigate deep, dark Arctic waters for longer than America has existed. And the wrinkly, cancer-resistant naked mole rat can live well into ...

Life, for most of us, ends far too soon—hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to delay the aging process and extend our stay on Earth. But there’s a paradox at the heart of the ...