The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to justice after campaigning against wrongful ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Flossie is a British domestic short-haired tortoiseshell cat who holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest living cat.

Human longevity has always amazed the likes of historians and scientists alike. Though the average life expectancies kept on ...

Archaeologists have found human remains and what is believed to be the world's oldest vintage in a 2,000 year-old glass ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Constructed centuries ago, the world's oldest homes have stood the test of time. From ancient adobe dwellings and cave houses ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

Betty Reid Soskin has a long list of accolades. She was a pioneering civil rights activist, an educate and a park ranger.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Betty Reid Soskin, a former National Park Service ranger who kept working until the age of 100, has died at the age of 104.