AncientPages.com – A new species of dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae, found recently in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, will help to reconstruct the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa, researchers say. Not much is known about Africa’s land-dwelling animals at the end
AncientPages.com – Archaeopteryx – the oldest bird species yet discovered – lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Germany. Archaeopteryx has long been accepted as a transitional form between birds and reptiles, and the earliest known bird. All the
AncientPages.com – Researchers from the University of Athens have reconstructed the face of a Greek teenage girl, who is believed to be between 15 and 18 years old. Her age was established after researchers analyzed her bones and teeth. Dubbed ‘Avgi’
AncientPages.com – Up till now, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa are dated to around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago at the Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh. Skhul Cave is on the slopes of Mount Carmel and
AncientPages.com – A prehistoric human skeleton has now been dated to at least 13,000 years old and most likely can be related to a glacial period at the end of the most recent ice age, the late Pleistocene. A German-Mexican research
AncientPages.com – Two fossils of the species Graecopithecus freybergi, discovered in Greece and Bulgaria have now been dated to between 7.2 and 7.1 million years ago. The discovery is quite intriguing because it suggests first human ancestors came from Europe and
AncientPages.com – The discovery of Homo naledi some years ago, an extinct hominin species caused a sensation. Suddenly we had a new human ancestor that could re-write our history and fill in gaps in the evolutionary record. Now, new discovery of
AncientPages.com – Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia. The study of these skull fragments found in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The ancient Tully Monster is a decades-old paleontological mystery scientists still cannot solve. The ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in the 1950s in Mazon Creek, a
AncientPages.com – Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the area. The graveyard was discovered on the site of a prehistoric city
AncientPages.com – The dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together, say Danish archaeologists researching a burial site in an ancient town in southern Jordan. “It
AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified fossilized shell pieces of an aquatic turtle and the fossil remains of a nearly five feet long tortoise of the genus Chelonoidis, found near Quebrada Honda, Bolivia in Altiplano in west-central South America. The fossil site of
AncientPages.com – Sobek was a 2,500-year old crocodile worshipped in life by the ancient Egyptians and mummified with all due reverence after death. The ancient Egyptians worshipped this crocodile as the embodiment of Sobek, the crocodile god, and many were
AncientPages.com – A rare fossil of a dog-sized horned dinosaur has been identified by a scientist at Britain’s University of Bath. The animal originated from eastern North America also known as ‘lost continent’ of Appalachia. During the Late Cretaceous period, 66-100 million years
AncientPages.com – Eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, dating back more than two and a half million years, have been found by scientists in southwest China. Despite their age, the fossils appear nearly identical to modern peach pits. It’s the first discovery
AncientPages.com – The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans in those days. For millions of years, these animals survived, living in
