Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated.

More than 500 million years ago, life wasn't the same. Life did not have a skeleton yet, at least not in sea sponges. In research published in "Science Advances", a team of researchers documented the ...

Tiny structures found in ancient Canadian rocks could be the oldest traces of animal life ever identified, dating back nearly ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Jonathan’s lived through historical events such as the invention of the incandescent lightbulb (1879) and the first people to ...

World’s Oldest Octopus: Octopuses are among the most intelligent and mysterious creatures in the ocean. Known for their ...