Scientists in Chile say they've discovered what could be the oldest living thing on earth. The cypress tree in Patagonia, nicknamed "great-grandfather", is estimated to be more than 5,000 years old. A ...

Ethel Caterham became the world's oldest living person, per the Gerontology Research Group, after a 116-year-old Brazilian ...

Canabarro, the second-longest-living nun in history after Lucile Randon reached the age of 118, became the oldest person alive after the death in January of the Japanese Tomiko Itooka, also at the ...

Caterham, who is 115, became the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, after Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died on Wednesday at the ...