A French woman believed to be the world’s oldest person has died shortly before her 119th birthday. Lucile Randon, a nun known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales in southern France ...

Anyone can read what you share. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Paris Sister André, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza ...

Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debate about studying remains ...

Scientists have revealed the oldest known example of a sexual combat weapon similar to the structures found in modern-day rhino beetles. A unique specimen of a trilobite trident, showing four ...

Jared Farmer What and where are the oldest known trees on the planet? If you include plants that can regenerate, the upper age limit could be ten thousand years or more. Such superorganisms ...

French nun Sister André, the world’s oldest known person, died on Tuesday at the age of 118 in the southern city of Toulon. The city’s mayor, Hubert Falco, announced the news of her death on ...

One of Idaho’s oldest and most well-known cemeteries is Boise’s Pioneer Cemetery, which has been in continuous use since the area was first settled in 1863. Buried here are some of Boise’s ...

As humans fiddle with the planet’s thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland’s history by drilling ice cores to analyze how the climate crisis has impacted the island country over ...