The oldest amber recovered dates to the Upper Carboniferous period ().

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

* The oldest viable carbon-14-dated seed that has grown into a plant was a Judean date palm seed about 2, 000 years old, recovered from excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada in Israel.

The oldest sample of wine in the world, dating to approximately 7, 000 years ago, was discovered on clay jars recovered outside of Shiraz ( according to the ref.

The oldest carbon-14-dated seed that has grown into a viable plant was a Judean date palm seed about 2, 000 years old, recovered from excavations at Herod the Great's palace in Israel.

The oldest recognized Pandionidae family fossils have been recovered from the Oligocene age Jebel Qatrani Formation, of Faiyum, Egypt.

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

The oldest book lungs have been recovered from extinct trigonotarbid arachnids preserved in the 410-million-year-old Rhynie chert of Scotland.

The oldest seed that has been germinated into a viable plant was an approximately 1, 300-year-old lotus fruit recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.

Fossil specimens of Acropyga genus ants have been recovered from the Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits and several individuals are preserved carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus .< ref name =" johnsonetal1995 "> These fossils represent the oldest recorded record of the symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga species ants.

The fossil species D. dunmalli, described by Bartholomai in 1971, is the oldest species recovered to date.

Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1, 300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.

It is believed the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts-indeed the oldest surviving Indian manuscripts of any kind-were recovered around Hadda.

The age of the oldest recovered ice is estimated to be ca.

Farmer, the oldest member of the " Gang ," was injured in the helicopter crash that took Davey Allison's life, but recovered and continues to race at short tracks today, well into his 70s.

In 1875 he suffered head injuries in a rail accident near Wheeling, West Virginia, from which he never fully recovered, and then over the next several years his two oldest daughters, his eldest son, and daughter-in-law also died of tuberculosis.

Thousands of Paleolithic-era artifacts have been recovered from the nearby area of Ca ’ Belvedere ( for Casa Belvedere ) and dated to around 850, 000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of human habitation in Italy.

* MV Perth, the oldest surviving wooden boat in Western Australia

Brasenose beat Jesus to win Oxford University's first Head of the River ; the two clubs claim to be the oldest established boat clubs in the world.

The oldest and best known tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is the Maid of the Mist boat cruise, named for an ancient Ongiara Indian mythical character, which has carried passengers into the rapids immediately below the falls since 1846.

The Port is home to the largest Paddle Steamer fleet in the world, which includes the world's oldest surviving wooden hulled paddle boat, the 1866 built PS Adelaide.

North Webster is home to the DIXIE, Indiana ’ s oldest stern wheel paddle boat.

The Oneida is the oldest continuously operating boat club on the Delaware River.

Brasenose is home to one of the oldest boat clubs in the world, Brasenose College Boat Club.

Brasenose College Boat Club ( BNCBC ) is sometimes held to be the oldest boat club in the world ; this is impossible to verify but BNCBC is certainly the oldest collegiate boat club and took part in the first ever head race, beating Jesus College Boat Club on that occasion.

The oldest boat remains ever found in Norway ( Haugvikbåten-2, 500 years old ) was discovered in a bog in Sømna.

, the oldest hire boat company on the River Shannon,

The wardroom of the oldest active submarine in the United States Pacific Fleet carries World War II submarine commander and Medal of Honor winner RADM Dick O ' Kane's personal cribbage board on board, and upon decommissioning it is transferred to the next oldest boat.

The world's oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted rudder can be seen on a pottery model of a junk dating from before 1st century AD, though some scholars think this may be a steering oar-a possible interpretation given that the model is of a river boat that was probably towed or poled.

The boat club also gives its name to Trinity college's May Ball, which is the oldest such event in Cambridge and originates from the club's celebrations after the victories in the May Bumps.

On July 13, 1975 Mel's oldest son Dirk, his wife Angel, and diver Rick Gage died after their boat capsized during their quest for treasure.

The oldest model boat club in the world, the Victoria Model Steam Boat Club, founded in the Park on 15 July 1904, is still active today and holds up to 17 of their Sunday regattas a year.

Pisa has an intense athletic rivalry with the University of Pavia traditionally culminating in the Pisa-Pavia Regatta ( Regata Pisa-Pavia ), the oldest competition of this kind in Italy and second in Europe only to the Oxford Cambridge boat race.

in Moji ward, Kitakyūshū, Japan is the oldest station on the Kagoshima Main Line in Kyūshū and the terminus for those going to and from Honshū by boat.

His oldest son was boat designer Bowdoin B. Crowninshield ( 1867 – 1948 ).

Thus, the boat race is considered second in vintage only to the prestigious Oxford and Cambridge boat race which is the world's oldest, continuing inter-institutional event.

Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Eastern Anatolia contains the oldest monumental structures in the world.

* 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It's considered the oldest Autonomy law in the world.

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

It is reputed to be one of the oldest hill forts in India and the world.

The town is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.

Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world, after the Sveriges Riksbank and the world's 8th oldest bank.

Borneo is home to one of the oldest rainforests in the world, along with the Daintree Rainforest in Australia and the Amazon rainforest.

The Borneo rainforest is 130 million years old, making it the oldest rainforest in the world.

* Budapest Business School, the second oldest business school in the world

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

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.

Cross-stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world.

As one of the oldest and most popular world pastimes, coin collecting is now often referred to as the " King of Hobbies ".

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Some of their recipes are the oldest and most-refined meat analogues in the world.

It is the oldest gay student organization in the world, founded as the Student Homophile League in 1967 by students including lifelong activist Stephen Donaldson.