What Pet Bird Has the Longest Lifespan? The oldest cockatoo was a bird named Cookie that lived in a zoo near Chicago. Cookie was 82 years old when he passed away. There are reports of cockatoos that ...

Nature is full of incredible phenomena, not least in the form of animals and organisms that can vastly outlive humans. Earth's oldest living organism, for example, is an aspen tree collective on the ...

A 75-year-old bird has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 2025/2026 nesting season. She is the oldest ...