Here, 24/7 Tempo offers a glimpse at 50 of the oldest things in the world. We compiled a diverse list of extremely old things, from drawings to modern inventions such as automobiles to the oldest ...

Some of the oldest relics are natural, like the earliest known dinosaur fossil or the world’s oldest tree. Others are man-made, like 40,000-year-old cave paintings that lack later artistic ...

For nearly a decade, the photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world, capturing images of the oldest continuously living things in the world, part of an effort to “step ...

Pando has already been suspected of being extremely old.To place harder limits on its actual age, the research team collected ...

Bobi has beaten the Guinness World Record for oldest living dog that has stood for a century A 30-year-old dog living in Portugal has not only broken the record of the world's oldest dog ...

Just how long has the world's oldest living thing been on this planet? That would be Siberian actinobacteria, and they've been here for some 400,000 to 600,000 years, longer than our species has ...

According to Guinness World Records, the oldest tree species ... scientists believe this is the planet’s oldest single living thing. It's in the Inyo National Forest between the Sierra ...

this article isn't going to provide you with an address for the delivery of the world's most fiery birthday cake. It will, however, nominate some viable candidates for the oldest living thing on ...

Often, there is less than a historical or scientific consensus as to which is the actual oldest item. These are not necessarily the first thing made in a particular category, rather, they are the ...

Bristlecone pines are the oldest unitary organisms in the world, known to surpass 5,000 years in age. In the 1960s a then-grad student cut down what would have been the oldest known tree in the ...

Sussman has now photographed more than 30 ancient organisms as part of her Oldest Living Things in the World project; she will publish a book of her work in the spring of 2014. She traveled to ...