April 10, 2024 1:30 PM

Peru stakes claim to world’s oldest human, born in 1900

Peru's Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world's oldest-ever person if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true. The country's government has claimed that local resident Marcelino Abad from the central Peruvian region of Huanuco is 124, which would make him by a distance the oldest living person and even top the oldest ever independently verified human. "Among the tranquility of the flora and fauna of Huanuco, Marcelino Aba...