While we often consider a century to be the ultimate milestone for human longevity, the natural world is home to several animals that view a hundred years as merely a warm-up. From the dark depths of ...

Some animals have a very different relationship to aging than we do: They don’t get cancer, they never go through menopause, and they live absurdly long lives. For instance, one bat species can live ...

Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Nastasic/Getty Images, imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke/Getty Images, Yaroslava Alekseeva/Getty Images, Gianluigi Guercia—Getty Images) In 2007, ...

Scientists have discovered that mammals living in social groups or with companions often live longer than animals that spend ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The longest-lived mammals on Earth, bowhead whales, contain longevity secrets that scientists hope could be applied to our own biology. A new study ...

Cows are not necessarily known for their intelligence, but that less-than-stellar reputation is beginning to change. A ...

A humble mollusk can live to 507. The oldest Greenland sharks navigate deep, dark Arctic waters for longer than America has existed. And the wrinkly, cancer-resistant naked mole rat can live well into ...