Hydotherikornis oregonus ( Described by Miller in 1931 ), the oldest purported alcid from the Eocene of California, is actually a petrel ( as reviewed by Chandler in 1990 ) and is reassigned to the tubenoses ( Procellariiformes ).

The oldest fossil resin dates to the Triassic, though most dates to the Tertiary.

The oldest known fossil showing unambiguous imprints of hair is the Callovian ( late middle Jurassic ) Castorocauda, an early mammal.

It is the second oldest fossil hominid in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

According to fossil evidence, the primitive ancestors of primates may have existed in the late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago ; the oldest known primate is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55 – 58 million years ago .< ref name = ChatterjeeEtal2009 >

The oldest fossil evidence of complex life comes from the Lantian formation, at least 580 million years ago.

The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130, 000 to 110, 000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004.

Tanzania is one of the oldest known inhabited areas on Earth ; fossil remains of humans and pre-human hominids have been found dating back over two million years.

The oldest fossil " proto-frog " appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago.

The oldest near-complete fossil lobopods date to the Lower Cambrian ; some are also known from a Silurian Lagerstätte.

Coelacanths (, adaptation of Modern Latin Cœlacanthus " hollow spine ", from Greek κοῖλ-ος koilos " hollow " + ἄκανθ-α akantha " spine ", referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 ) are members of an order of fish that includes the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii ( lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ).

Callorhinus ( Northern Fur Seal ) has the oldest fossil record of any extant Otariid, extending to the middle Pliocene, and probably arose from the extinct fur seal Thalassoleon.

The oldest New World fossil of a trogon is from the comparatively recent Pleistocene.

Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to " native " status in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years.

A small primitive bear called Ursus abstrusus is the oldest known North American fossil member of the genus Ursus, dated to 4. 95 mya.

This was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and is still the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in Western Europe so far discovered.

The Chengjiang fossils comprise the oldest diverse metazoan assemblage above the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition, and thus the fossil record ’ s best data source for understanding the apparently rapid diversification of life known as the Cambrian Explosion.

The fossil of what is said to be the oldest air-breathing invertebrate discovered was found at Stonehaven's Cowie Beach.

The Yuanmou Man, a Homo erectus fossil unearthed by railway engineers in the 1960s, has been determined to be the oldest known hominid fossil in China.

The oldest fossil lichens in which both symbiotic partners have been recovered date to the Early Devonian Rhynie chert, about 400 million years old.

Lichens were a component of the early terrestrial ecosystems, and the estimated age of the oldest terrestrial lichen fossil is 400 Ma.

Discovered in 1823 it is the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and at 33, 000 years old is still the oldest ceremonial burial of a modern human ever discovered anywhere in Western Europe.

The oldest known fossil pseudoscorpion dates back 380 million years to the Devonian period.

Opposite is the Palazzo Mattei, one of Rome's oldest palaces, now the headquarters of the Italo-American Association.

Seigner is the dean of the company, the oldest actor in point of continuous service.

He is the oldest and most experienced of the lot.

The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac ( the sun's apparent path ).

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3, 400 years.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

This amber, roughly 125 – 135 million years old, is considered of high scientific value, providing some of the oldest sampled ecosystem.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.