Genesis claims that people in the pre-Flood world routinely attained 900-year lifespans. The best-known example is Methuselah, who had the longest recorded lifespan of 969 years (Genesis 5:27). Skeptics dismiss these great ages as fanciful legends, but recent fossil data are providing unexpected, albeit indirect, corroboration of the Bible’s testimony. Science Advances reports that growth patterns in fossil teeth show that seven small shrew- and mouse-like Jurassic mammals all had very long lifespans compared to living mammals of comparable size.¹ The seven colored squares in...