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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

After all, the biblical Methuselah, ancestor to Noah, was said to have lived 969 years, while the Methuselah Tree, thought to be the world's oldest living thing, has endured almost five times as ...