Chapter 5 of the Book of Genesis gives us some amazing numbers for the lifespan of the earliest humans.

• (From verse 5) Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
• (From verse 8) Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
• (From verse 11) Thus all the days of Enoch were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
• ... and so on

According to tradition, the first five books of the bible (called, appropriately enough, the "Pentateuch") were put together by Moses. Obviously, Moses was not a scientist in the modern sense of the term. Nevertheless, the following verses from chapter 3 of The Book of Exodus demonstrate that he was innately curious about unusual phenomena.

Verses 1-3: "Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."

I suspect these two accounts may be connected, in the following sense: God, who invented the laws of physics, including the Law of Entropy, also referred to as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, could adjust those laws in specific cases, like the length of some people's lives and the life of a fire in a bush.  Without God's intervention, such lifetimes would be impossible.