Methuselah, an Australian lungfish, arrived at the California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco in November 1938 and has lived there ever since.This week, scientists revealed it ...

Trees tell us stories. Scientists count their rings to figure out how old they are and when those years add up, it can be a sign of nature's endurance in the face of change. Trees that have stood tall ...

This scaly world-record breaker looks much younger than she is. Or so scientists say. The approximate age of the oldest-known aquarium fish housed at a San Francisco Bay Area aquarium for the past 85 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the physics of nothing, everything, and the stuff in between. For the person short on time, the answer is no. But the full ...