Fossils Archive
Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research challenges the long-held belief that flowering plants developed large fruits and seeds only after the dinosaurs died out about 66
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Documented for 200 years, the Iguanodontia group is expanding with the discovery of a brand-new species, the first known to bear spikes
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent discoveries have shed new light on the diversity of ancient human ancestors. The story goes back to 2009, when a team led by
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - There’s a new dinosaur species on the block. An international team, including a biologist from Penn State Lehigh Valley, discovered that a 75-million-year-old
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur that made it may have
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - What if everything we know about T. rex growth is wrong? A complete tyrannosaur skeleton has just ended one of paleontology’s longest-running debates
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - New fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, from the Campanian (80 million years ago) pushes back the evolutionary timeline of Dyrosauridae and highlights Egypt’s
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A “teenaged” pachycephalosaur from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert may provide answers to lingering questions around the dinosaur group. The fossil represents a new species
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Over 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, the region now known as northern Illinois, excluding Chicago, was characterized by vibrant ecosystems.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A remarkable fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exceptionally preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unparalleled view into early
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - What did long-necked dinosaurs eat – and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? How did massive dinosaurs live during the
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. 3D color maps of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from Durham University and Yunnan University has led to a significant reclassification of a peculiar spiny fossil, initially believed
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex, which evolved in North America, has its direct ancestor
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest specimen known to science. The hell ant, which
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research led by the University of Bristol has uncovered that many mammals were already adapting to a terrestrial lifestyle several million years before
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Lund University in Sweden analyzed fossilized plesiosaur soft tissue for the first time, revealing it had both smooth and scaly
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent groundbreaking research has revealed a significant discovery: fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists. This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Over a million years ago, in a bustling savanna near the future site of Lake Turkana in Kenya, two distinct hominin species might
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The size of the human brain has long been of interest to scientists. A new study suggests humans have larger brains due to
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