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A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
These remains are among the oldest hominid remains ever found.
They date back 1. 83 million years, the oldest evidence of hominid habitation in Southeast Asia ..
It is the second oldest fossil hominid in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
The area is also home to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which contains the Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils are found, as well as the Ngorongoro Crater.
At nearby Laetoli the oldest known hominid footprints, the Laetoli footprints, were discovered by Mary Leakey in 1978, and estimated to be about 3. 6 million years old and probably made by Australopithecus afarensis.
Just to the southeast of the park is Olduvai Gorge, where many of the oldest hominid fossils and artifacts have been found.
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.
It was claimed by Egyptian scientists to have the possible age of 2-3 million years old, which would make it the oldest fossilized hominid footprint ever found.
The name Cradle of Humankind reflects the fact that the site has produced a large number, as well as some of the oldest, hominid fossils ever found, some dating back as far as 3. 5 million years ago.
Until older human remains were discovered in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Dubois ' and Koenigswald's discoveries were the oldest hominid remains ever found.
Notable prehistoric finds include the Yuanmou Man, a Homo erectus fossil unearthed by railway engineers in the 1960s and determined to be the oldest known hominid fossil in China.
Mrs Ples, the oldest hominid skull found at Sterkfontein cave
The skull has cavities in ten of the upper teeth and is considered the oldest occurrence of cavities for a hominid.
The largest sagittal crest ever discovered in the human lineage belongs to the " Black Skull ", Paranthropus aethiopicus field number KNM WT 17000, the earliest known robust hominid ancestor and the oldest robust australopithecine discovered to date.
At that time it was the oldest hominid fossil ever found.
Afar is well known as one of the cradles of hominids, containing the Middle Awash, site of many fossil hominid discoveries such as Ardi, ( Ardipithecus ramidus ); the Gona ( Gawis cranium ), site of the world's oldest stone tools ; and Hadar, site of Lucy, the fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.
Six million year old hominid fossils were discovered here in 2000 by Martin Pickford, the oldest ever discovered in Kenya, and the second oldest in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

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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.
At the time, these were the oldest fossils discovered in Australia, though this record has now been far surpassed.
The oldest fossils occur in China from about 0. 5 million years ago.
The oldest known fossils assigned to Equidae date from the early Eocene, 54 million years ago.
Hence, fossils range in age from the youngest at the start of the Holocene Epoch to the oldest from the Archaean Eon, up to 3. 4 billion years old.
Earth ’ s oldest fossils are the stromatolites consisting of rock built from layer upon layer of sediment and other precipitants.
The continued study of these oldest fossils is paramount to calibrate complementary molecular phylogenetics models.
When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.
Hymenoptera originated in the Triassic, the oldest fossils belonging to the family Xyelidae.
Isolated Petrous part of the temporal bone | petrosals of Djarthia murgonensis, Australia's oldest marsupial fossils
The oldest metatherian fossils ( Metatheria being a larger clade that groups marsupials with some of their extinct relatives ) are found in present-day China. About 100 mya, the supercontinent Pangaea was in the process of splitting into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana, with what would become China and Australia already separated by the Tethys Ocean.
The oldest known fossils of bony fish are about 420 million years ago, which are also transitional fossils, showing a tooth pattern that is in between the tooth rows of sharks and bony fishes.
Their prototypes are the oldest winged fossils, go back to the Devonian, and are different in several respects from the wings of other insects.
In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.
One of the fossils found a male, adult jawbone has been dated to be between 34, 000 and 36, 000 years old, which would make it one of the oldest fossils found to date of modern humans in Europe.
Tanzania is home to some of the oldest human settlements unearthed by archaeologists, including stone tools and fossils of hominids found in and around Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, an area often referred to as " The Cradle of Mankind ".
The oldest habitation discovered in the Philippines is located at the Tabon Caves and dates back to approximately 50, 000 years ; while items there found such as burial jars, earthenware, jade ornaments and other jewelry, stone tools, animal bones, and human fossils dating back to 47, 000 years ago.
The oldest fossils are known from the shallow seas around the North Pacific, with animals spreading to the European coasts and Southern Hemisphere only much later, during the Pliocene.
The oldest fossils known of the modern coconut date from the Eocene period from around 37 to 55 million years ago and were found in Australia and India.
The oldest alcid fossil is Hydrotherikornis from Oregon dating to the Late Eocene while fossils of Aethia and Uria go back to the Late Miocene.

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It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??
Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.
In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.
The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.
Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.
However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup.
Zoff is also the oldest player ever to have won the trophy.
With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.
* 2007 Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43, 000 years ago.
Skipper Jack McKeon became the oldest manager ever to win a World Series title.
Among finds is the net of Antrea, the oldest fishing net known ever to have been excavated ( calibrated carbon dating: c. 8300 BCE ).
Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man " were first discovered by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois at Trinil in 1891, and are at least 700, 000 years old, at that time the oldest human ancestor ever found.
* 1981 Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U. S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
The oldest Acheulean tools ever discovered anywhere in the world are from West Turkana, and were dated in 2011 through the method of magnetostratigraphy to about 1. 76 million years old.
The Katzenjammer Kids is still distributed by King Features, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication and the longest-running ever.
At 39, he was one of the oldest players ever to play for Liverpool.
In 1991 a hominin jawbone was discovered near Uraha village that was between 2. 3 and 2. 5 million years old, the oldest evidence of the genus Homo ever discovered.
One of the oldest written fragments of the language ever found dates back to the year 960, in an official text that was mixed with Latin:
He left office at the age of 71 years, one month and 26 days, making him the oldest person ever to be Prime Minister.
He became the oldest player ever to win this award, at age 42.
With his 2004 win, he joined Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martínez as the only pitchers to win it in both leagues and became the oldest pitcher to ever win the Cy Young.
At 38 years old, Elway became the oldest player ever to be named Super Bowl MVP.
Discovered by an international team led by Shannon McPherron, they are the oldest evidence of stone tool use ever found anywhere in the world.

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