Researchers in The Netherlands previously settled upon a maximum age for people who had lived "perfect lives" - and the ...

Dr. Sajad Zalzala, chief medical officer of AgelessRx in Michigan, helps people live their longest, healthiest lives. He ...

Why do common shrews live for only two years, while bowhead whales survive for two centuries? And could the answer give us hints as to how to extend our own, human life spans? The maximum life span of ...

A major problem is that life span cannot be defined unambiguously. "Maximum" life span is commonly reported but represents an extreme-value statistic which is difficult to estimate accurately.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

Confused? Allow us to explain. There’s an important distinction to be made here between average life expectancy and the maximum human lifespan. “Average life expectancy (the number of years a ...

And although a human's average life expectancy has increased by decades in the last 100 years or so, our maximum life span hasn't shifted anywhere near as significantly. Many biologists think ...

"If a species is not reaching their natural maximum life span in the wild it may indicate environmental pressures pushing the species into extinction." Woolly mammoth - 60 years Passenger pigeon ...