What is the oldest land on earth?

Answer 1

Harriet was a Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise and the world's oldest living creature. The giant tortoise was taken from the Galapagos Islands by naturalist Charles Darwin in 1835 as a personal pet during his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle. On that voyage was a young naval officer, John Clements Wickham. After studying Harriet whilst formulating his theory of evolution, Darwin handed the tortoise on to Wickham when the latter sailed for Brisbane to take up a post as police magistrate. Over the years, the tortoise was carefully tended, and in 1958, was moved to naturalist David Fleay's wildlife park on the Gold Coast. She was moved to Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast in 1987 where she enjoyed celebrity status until her death on 23 June 2006.

The Marine Clam Quahog has a life span of 220 years. Researchers at Bangor University in the United Kingdom recently counted 405 annual growth rings in the shells of a quahog clam from the Arctic. There may well be older individuals.

However, in terms of the first "animal", i.e. vertebrate, to appear on Earth (i.e. the oldest type of animal)this would be fish. Fossils of fish have been found which date further back than fossils of larger organisms, and regardless of whether one ascribes to the Scientific or Creationist view, evidence seems to suggest that fish were the first animals.

Other evidence suggests that the first organism on earth may well have been a flagellated eukaryote. Their closest known living relatives are the choanoflagellates, collared flagellates that have a morphology similar to the choanocytes of certain sponges. Molecular studies place animals in a supergroup called the opisthokonts, which also include the choanoflagellates, fungi and a few small parasitic protists.
the giant galapogos land tortiuse
Oldest mammal - Whale Approx 180 years documented age

Oldest animal overall- Giant turtle -- documented over 200 years.

Answer 2

The oldest substance on Earth is technically some of the hydrogen you can find in water; it would have been made long before the Sun started to conglomerate and reached Earth after 'flying' through space for a very long time. The oldest rocks have been timed as roughly 3.8 billion years old (almost as old as they possibly could be, given the initial temperatures and cooling rates of the Earth).

Answer 3

The oldest non-living things are the continental rocks of Asia and Antarctica. The oldest living thing could be a sponge, a coral, colonies of some trees, and individual trees such as the bristlecone pines of California and the yews of Scotland and Wales.

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Answer 4

The oldest place on earth is a small island called Malta. Malta has structures from the primitive time the stone age and has buildings still standing from the time of WWII.A church that was bombed and is still standing now.

Answer 5

The oldest rocks we have so far discovered on Earth are those of the Jack Hills in Australia. These rocks have minerals which formed 4.4 billion years ago.

The other area of old rocks is to be found on the west coast of Greenland.

Answer 6

The atoms of most things on earth have been present since before the solar nebula coalesced into the planets. While some atoms have been created by radioactive decay of other elements, and many molecules have been formed by combination (and recombination) of atoms, most atoms originated in the nebula. The main exception consists of the small amount of material which has arrived on earth later - through meteorites.

Going even further back, the quarks which form the atoms were formed very shortly after the Big Bang.

Answer 7

A piece of land in Greenland

Answer 8

chickens and crocodiles

Answer 9

a ghost