THE world’s oldest man has died at the age of 112 “surrounded by music and love” just months after breaking the Guinness ...

Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia. She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of ...

Jeanne Louise Calment holds the record for the longest verified human lifespan, living to 122 years and 164 days. Born in ...

That date range makes Misliya-1 the oldest human fossils outside Africa as well as a contemporary of the humans found at Herto and Omo Kibish in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian fossils, however, like the ...