By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Scientists are uncovering why Brazil may be one of the most important yet underused resources for studying extreme longevity.

Decades of progress in medicine and public health are driving rapid global aging, straining healthcare systems and national ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, our insides also inevitably change. By the time most people reach the ripe ...