Fossils Archive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C. is raising questions about how the dispersal

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth’s history to date, killing between 80-90% of life on the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –  An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  The quest to identify humans' oldest continues. As scientists explore the realm of animals that lived on this planet millions of years ago,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of Borneo has revealed that the current

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a 36-million-year-old skull of a huge fearsome marine monster that was lurking in the prehistoric oceans of Peru. Based on

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have verified the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early 20th-century anatomical research supported the view that humans evolved from a suspensory ancestor bearing some resemblance to apes. Charles Darwin and others

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Dinosaurs are long gone, but their tracks have been preserved for millions of years, and we find evidence of these prehistoric animals in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A milk-tooth found in the vicinity of "Riparo del Broion" on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancestor to modern humans had a stockier body shape and a larger lung volume than today’s humans, according to a team of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University