The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

As if that weren’t enough of an accomplishment for the old lady, she did this without having been in contact with a male for over 15 years. Researchers are investigating whether ...

Houston, Texas resident Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest known living person in America, died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at age 115. At the time of her death, the supercentenarian was the third-oldest ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Humans have been cooking food for tens of thousands of years, but the oldest known recipes are ...

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature’s ...

An illustration of one of the oldest stars ever found in our solar neighborhood. The aging star, cataloged as HD140283, lies 190.1 light-years from Earth. The oldest known naked eye star in our Milky ...

A Roman tomb dating back two millennia has offered a tantalizing find: the world’s oldest known surviving wine. The tomb, in the town of Carmona, in the province of Seville, was discovered in 2019 ...

X has recently seen a claim about the world’s oldest tree said to be in Tanzania, Africa. The tree appears ancient, with a ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city. What appears to be ...

Washington, D.C.–Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth’s early crust. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution used geochemical methods to obtain ...

Canadian bedrock more than 4 billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth’s early crust. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and McGill University in Montreal used ...