Have you ever wondered what the oldest living thing is? Introducing Pando, the ancient quaking aspen forest that's over ...

Is this 5,000-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine the oldest single living thing on the planet ... Is any organism on Earth immortal? No, according to ageing expert Joao Pedro de Magalhaes ...

making it the oldest chunk of Earth to ever have been discovered – though it’s not the oldest thing we’ve ever found on the ...

And what about the oldest ship still in use, or the oldest shoe company? Yes, you'd be surprised at the age of some of the things on our planet, with a few actually spanning billions of years.

There are living things on the Earth, both plants and animals ... who has spent a decade finding and documenting the oldest living things in the world. Beginning with "Year Zero" or the beginning ...

The durable mineral zircon is the oldest known stuff in our Earth's crust. It is formed only under extreme temperatures and is difficult to destroy, but until now we've never figured out exactly ...

Additionally, Tinniswood was the world's oldest surviving male World War II veteran. Tinniswood assumed the title of "Oldest Living Man" on ... Tinniswood had no such thing.

Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They found dust grains within the space rock - which fell to Earth in the 1960s - that are as much as ...

These rings were layers of xylem that started forming before the Great Pyramids were built. They belonged to what was once one of the oldest living things on Earth — or maybe the oldest. I gazed at ...

But rest assured that some of the trees you see in these panoramas are among the oldest living things on Earth.

Scientists say they have discovered the oldest evidence of photosynthesis on Earth. Plants - and a few other things in nature - use photosynthesis to feed. It involves using energy from the sun to ...