10 Oldest Things on Earth
The zircon crystals from Australia’s Jack Hills are believed to be the oldest thing ever discovered on Earth. Researchers have dated the crystals to about 4.375 billion years ago, just 165 million years after the Earth formed.
12 Of The Oldest Objects Ever Discovered - HowStuffWorks
2023年11月30日 · Discovered in 2001 on a sheep ranch in a part of Western Australia known as the Jack Hills, this ancient zircon crystal is the oldest known material formed on Earth. Scientists say they’ve dated the ancient crystal to about 4.4 billion years ago.
The Oldest Artifacts Ever Discovered - Reader's Digest
2023年8月21日 · In a series of caves in Spain, researchers found the oldest cave paintings ever discovered. The images include hand stencils and linear motifs that had to have been made by Neanderthals since...
10 Oldest Geological Features On Earth - Listverse
2016年12月12日 · The Namib desert in Africa is officially the world’s oldest heap of sand. Its walking dunes are home to mysterious fairy circles and another oldie, the Welwitschia plant, some of which are 2,500 years old.
The oldest living thing on Earth - BBC
2017年6月12日 · Mayflies live a day, humans live a century, if we're lucky, but what is the oldest living organism on the planet? For scientists, accurately proving the age of any long-lived species is a hard...
Earliest known life forms - Wikipedia
Therefore, the earliest time for the origin of life on Earth is at most 3.5 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.1 billion years ago — not long after the oceans formed 4.5 billion years ago and after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.
The Oldest Living Things in the World - Atlas Obscura Lists
From Greece’s ancient olive tree to Antarctica’s volcano sponge, here are 15 of the oldest living things in the world.
Discover the 7 Oldest Things on Earth - A-Z Animals
2023年8月10日 · These are 7 of the oldest things on Earth: 7. Omo Remains: Oldest Human Fossils. Human remains have been found many places throughout the world. The Omo remains are the oldest human — or Homo sapien — fossils. They were discovered in Ethiopia at the Omo-Kibish archaeological sites in the 1960s.
What's the Oldest Object Ever Found? - Mental Floss
2016年3月9日 · In 2014, scientists confirmed that a small zircon crystal found on a sheep ranch in Western Australia was actually a 4.4-billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust. This made it the oldest...
Scientists discover oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old ...
2020年1月13日 · Scientists with the University of Chicago and Field Museum have discovered stardust that formed 5 to 7 billion years ago—the oldest solid material ever found on Earth.