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

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Nevali Cori and Hacilar represent the world's oldest known agricultural towns.

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

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.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

The oldest bows known so far come from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark.

There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

The Rensselyrics of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( formerly known as the RPI Glee Club ), established in 1873 is perhaps the oldest known collegiate a cappella group.

The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.

Senet is among the oldest known board games.

Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

The oldest known bubble tea consisted of a mixture of hot Taiwanese black tea, small tapioca pearls ( 粉圓 ), condensed milk, and syrup ( 糖漿 ) or honey.

Descriptions of various beer recipes can be found in Sumerian writings, some of the oldest known writing of any sort.

* Scientists identify the oldest known bee, a 100 million-year-old specimen preserved in amber

Plesiadapis is one of the oldest known primate-like mammal species which existed about 58-55 million years ago in North America and Europe.

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

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

These may be dated from the Serravallian, which, constitute the oldest marine mammal occurrence in Algarve.

William Diller Matthew FRS ( February 19, 1871 – September 24, 1930 ) was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known ( Early Permian ) therapsid.

The first specimen, a partial jaw discovered in 1909 by a gold prospector at Koru, near Kisumu in western Kenya, was also the oldest fossil hominoid known until recently, and the first fossil mammal ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.

It is one of the oldest examples of a placental mammal known, and would have lived alongside the dinosaurs.

The oldest caniforms are the Miacis species Miacis cognitus, the Amphicyonidae ( bear-dogs ) such as Daphoenus, and Hesperocyon ( of the family Canidae, subfamily Hesperocyoninae ).

The oldest known tools are the " Oldowan stone tools " from Ethiopia, 2. 5-2. 6 million years old, which predates the earliest known " Homo " species.

The oldest known mosquito with an anatomy similar to modern species was found in 79-million-year-old Canadian amber from the Cretaceous.

Bearing these inaccuracies in mind, the oldest crocodilians appear to be the largest species.

One individual of this species, dubbed Methuselah, is one of the world's oldest living organisms at around 4, 600 years old.

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.

The oldest direct evidence of cassava cultivation comes from a 1, 400-year-old Maya site, Joya de Cerén, in El Salvador, but the species Manihot esculenta likely originated further south in Brazil and Paraguay.

It is the oldest extant ( living ) vascular plant division at around 410 million years old, and includes some of the most " primitive " extant species.

Chatsworth has some of the oldest specimens of species such as Douglas fir and Giant Sequoia in the UK.

The oldest ( and smallest ) species of Megatherium is M. altiplanicum of Pliocene Bolivia.

This page of the Voynich manuscript might possibly show one of the oldest illustrations of a Drosera species

It was the oldest of the species found at that time, dating to 160, 000 years, and was the first contemporaneous with Homo neanderthalensis.

Archaea Domain – prokaryotic, no nuclear membrane, distinct biochemistry and RNA markers from eubacteria, possess unique ancient evolutionary history for which they are considered some of the oldest species of organisms on Earth ; traditionally classified as archaebacteria ; often characterized by living in extreme environments

The oldest known leporid species date from the late Eocene, by which time the family was already present in both North America and Asia.

The oldest fossil agnathans appeared in the Cambrian, and two groups still survive today: the lampreys and the hagfish, with about 100 species in total.

The oldest known harvestman, from the 400 million years old Devonian Rhynie chert, already has almost all the characteristics of modern species, placing the origin of harvestmen in the Silurian, or even earlier.

Another tree of the species, still living, is El Tlatoani, which is about 700 years old and is the oldest resident of the park.

Harrison used the group name Dunnock for all of the species, not just Prunella modularis ( thus e. g. Japanese Dunnock for P. rubida ); this usage is based on the oldest known name for any of the species ( old English dun -, brown, +-ock, small: " little brown bird ").

The oldest known eutherian species is Juramaia sinensis, dated at from the Jurassic in China.

Historically, the description of a bacterium lacking a cell wall was sufficient to classify it to the genus Mycoplasma and as such it is the oldest and largest genus of the class with about half of the class ' species ( 107 validly described ), each usually limited to a specific host and with many hosts harboring more than one species, some pathogenic and some commensal.

Only a very small number of fossil specimens are known, the oldest dating back to the Pleistocene, and no fossils belonging to other species from the same family have yet been discovered.

By another definition, however, maximum life span corresponds to the age at which the oldest known member of a species or experimental group has died.