Maximum Life Span

A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish endemic to Tasmania.

An expert on aging thinks humans could live to be 1,000 years old—with a few tweaks to our genetic "software"

If a fishery manager could only know one thing about a fish species, it should be lifespan. But many species live out their lives on time scales much longer than we can observe. And even the short-lived species do a good job of hiding in the sea.

The Tyrannosaurus rex is dinosaur royalty, an iconic and instantly identifiable species – and according to a new study, as many as 1.7 billion of these beasts roamed Earth before an unfortunate meeting with an asteroid. It takes a lot of number crunching to figure this out, everything from average lifespan to sexual maturity to the number of T. rex eggs that survived has to be calculated and factored in to reach an…

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Bryan Johnson, a multimillionaire biotech CEO, follows a strict daily regimen in the hopes of slowing his aging. Here's what experts think of it.

Mammals that live in groups may generally live longer than members of solitary species, suggests a Nature Communications paper. The findings are based on an analysis of nearly 1,000 mammals —including the golden snub-nosed monkey, naked mole-rat, bowhead whale and horseshoe bat⁠—and may improve our understanding of the evolution of social organization and longevity in these species.

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Tortoises don't even make the top 10 longest-living animals.

New data shows that several types of the shelled reptiles can slow—and even stop—aging if the environmental conditions are right.

Natural selection has produced mammals that age at dramatically different rates. Take, for example, naked mole rats and mice; the former can live up to 41 years, nearly ten times as long as similar-size rodents such as mice.

Jonathan was already the oldest living land animal.

Bowhead whales were known to live up to 200 years, and a new study finds that southern right whales may live up to age 150 if they aren't being hunted

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these whales may live to 150. This lifespan is almost double the 70-80 years they are conventionally believed to live...

Human life expectancy in high-income countries is no longer climbing at the rate it did in the 20th century, a new study suggests.

Building on their work on epigenetics of aging and transposable elements, researchers Dr. Ádám Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai from Eötvös Loránd University have made another advance in understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging. Their latest study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, reveals a novel epigenetic mechanism in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that could transform our approach to…

These mouse-like critters likely lived longer than their modern relatives.

A groundbreaking 7-year study led by Steve Horvath reveals epigenetic markers' potential to predict maximum lifespan, gestation, and sexual maturity in diverse mammals, offering insights into species longevity.

By studying mammals using the same biological clock, we can begin to parse genomic "hot spots" that govern aging and lifespan.