Fossils Archive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In a new study published in JMIRx Bio, one of JMIR Publications’ new overlay journals, scientist Floe Foxon explores whether the Loch

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com  - University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to

AncientPages.com - Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Argentine paleontologists discovered a new herbivorous species of giant dinosaurs that lived about 90 million years ago. A team of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What can human hands possibly have in common with fish fins? Not much, most would say. However, according to scientists, fossil evidence offers

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth's earliest animals managed to be picky

AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat,