Here are the top 10 oldest animals to have ever lived: The Greenland shark holds the record for being the longest-living ...

THE world’s oldest cat has just celebrated her 30th birthday, as her owner shares the bizarre secret to her long life. Leslie Greenhough, 70, believes his tortoiseshell moggy, Millie, who ...

The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The four hatchlings are part of a clutch of 16 eggs Mommy laid back in November ...

Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style BERLIN -- Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her ...

BERLIN (AP) — Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style. The Berlin zoo on Friday presented Fatou… ...

After years of studying the genetics and morphology of the long-frozen nematodes, Shatilovich and her colleagues now claim that the reanimated worms are a previously-undescribed species—one from ...

Helena, in the South Atlantic, lives a tortoise named Jonathan -- who just might be the oldest living animal in the world. Jonathan is believed to be between 170 and 200 years old, island ...

It’s the world’s oldest sperm, and it’s relatively big—nearly five times longer than the creature from which it came. The sperm dates back 100 million years and belongs to an ancient ostracod, a ...