Living alone can magnify health issues. Seniors who live on their own are at higher risk of hospitalization and suffer ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

Officials from an English zoo are searching for a capybara that escaped from the facility and is believed to be camped out by a nearby brook.

Jonathan, a giant tortoise from Seychelles, celebrated his 191st birthday this year, becoming the world's oldest land animal.

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000 -- almost 90 percent of them women ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The oldest person alive was honored on Japan's Respect for the Aged Day. Tomiko Itooka, now 116 years old, ...

There must be something in the water in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, as Minnesota has had some of the oldest residents in ...

Because the crime happened in 1980, Hanks was sentenced under the state law in effect at that time, which called for a 5- to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut and Oregon native, is headed to space again. Pettit, 69, is from Silverton, Oregon, and this spaceflight, which took off ...

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

The top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating a milestone birthday, his 100th. Like the president of the Utah-based faith — commonly known as the Mormon church — lea ...

Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest living person, turned 119 years old on Sunday, according to a twitter post published by her great-granddaughter, Junko Tanaka. “Great achievement. (Kane Tanaka ...