With an estimated birth year of 1832, Jonathan was alive for the invention of the safety pin, the telephone, and the roller coaster. Here, he is photographed in 1902 and today, on the South Pacific Island of Saint Helena.

This family tree illustrates the lineages of Indo-European and Uralic languages though-out human history, and how some of the world's most-used languages came to be. And it's pretty enough to put on your wall.

Ming the Clam, once the world's oldest animal, was killed at 507 years of age by scientists trying to determine its age in 2006.

Ming the Clam (1499–2006) is a nickname given to a specimen of the ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica), that was excavated off the coast of Iceland in 2006 and whose age was calculated by counting annual growth lines in the shell.

Ming was the oldest individual animal ever discovered whose age could be accurately determined. The mollusc’s 507 year old life came to an end in 2006 when the British researchers – unaware of the animal’s impressive age – opened up its shell to examine it.

The clam was named Ming in reference to the Ming dynasty, during which it was born. Interestingly, the second oldest ocean quahog ...