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Scientists have waited a long time for a find like Odontochelys, Li said: The previously oldest known turtles featured fully formed shells.

It shows two naked people literally wrapped up in each other. It's the oldest known representation of a couple having sex.

The previous oldest known recordings were made on an IBM mainframe computer at Bell Labs in the US in 1957, he said.

Fossils found: Modern liverworts are one of the oldest known species of plant, thought to have evolved from algae.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi's.

Recently, however, the supposed "world's oldest known bird, " Archaeopteryx, was found to be a non-avian dinosaur.

Think of it as a kind of prehistoric Prada: Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest known leather shoe.

The scrolls were among the oldest known biblical texts until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the mid-20th century.

Marks on a clay tablet fragment found in Greece are the oldest known decipherable text in Europe, a new study says.

From a cave in southwestern Germany, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known piece of figurative art.

Around 2000 BC , the oldest known example of a sandal was made of woven papyrus in Egypt .

The West's oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted rudder can be found on church carvings dating to around 1180.

American Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest known person, died at the age of 115 Friday at a nursing home.

In 2009 the Vatican announced that the oldest known icon of the Apostle Paul had been found on the catacomb's ceiling.

London's oldest known timber structure could be the city's earliest "boardwalk, " archaeologists say.

Perhaps the most famous is called Beowulf. It is the oldest known English poem.

Leprosy may be the world's oldest known disease, but it is also one of the most misunderstood.

The oldest known sculptures are often called Venus Figurines, and almost all of them resemble pregnant women.

The ancient manuscripts hidden in the caves near Qumran are the oldest known copies of key Old Testament books.

Mocha coffee beans are one of the oldest known varieties of coffee in the world.

Until the new find, the oldest known amber containing ancient animals dated to the Middle Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago.

Regardless, however, these ancient texts will always remain amongst the oldest known to humanity.

Previously, the oldest known fossils of animals in which the sperm fertilized eggs internally were reptiles dating back 200m years.

However, probably the oldest known finds were once made near the Red Sea in Egypt.

A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth.

Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants.

Archaeologists have unearthed the 5, 000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman.

That makes the duo the oldest known fossil evidence of hitch-hiking behavior, or phoresy, in a large group of mites called the Astigmata.

It is, nevertheless, the oldest known alcoholic drink in the world and is widely enjoyed.

This is the oldest known live recording of ZZ Top up to date.

Some stromatolites date back nearly 4000 million years, making them the oldest known fossils.

That, they say, makes it the oldest known seed ever germinated.

The Arabian could be the oldest known pure breed.

The oldest known whale to ply the Antarctic has been found, scientists say.

About Hockey (Olympic sport since 1908) Hockey is the oldest known ball and stick game.

On June 18, the oldest-known working light bulb in the world will celebrate the 110th year it has burned bright.

some specimens have reached ages of 3000 to 5000 years, making bristlecone pines the oldest known living trees.

But the oldest known depictions of heterosexual anal appear 800 years later on Peruvian pottery (c. 300 A. D. ).

Today, the library has about 150, 000 volumes of manuscripts as well as the 'Codex B' - the oldest known complete Bible.

One lucky survivor was Wisdom, an albatross about 60 years of age, who is the oldest-known bird in the US.

This is the oldest known building here.

Its remains from 6 millennia earlier, however, show a large walled city that is the oldest known settlement in the world.

The Western Wall is one of the oldest known nesting sites for swifts in the world

The oldest known site, in Namibia, is between 18, 000 and 28, 000 years old.

Scientists discover what they believe is the farthest and oldest known planet

The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the world was drawn about 3, 800 BC,

the world's oldest-known religious artifact,