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 have crossed paths while scavenging for food. This conclusion comes from scientists
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 a long childhood. Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The fossilized skeleton of the newly discovered snake species Hibernophis breithaupti, which lived 38 million years ago in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Recent research has called into question a widely circulated theory regarding the origin of the griffin, a mythological creature. Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Important scientific discoveries do not necessarily come in grand or attention-grabbing forms. Sometimes, new findings emerge from unassuming and ordinary objects. Such is the case with a 6-centimeter-wide, unremarkable mass of bone and teeth that
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three meters—making it one of the largest pterosaurs ever found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – North America was once a realm dominated by megafauna, colossal creatures that roamed the land during the last ice age, approximately 50,000 years ago. The tundra was traversed by lumbering mammoths, while towering mastodons, fierce
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The emergence of Homo sapiens in the Eastern Asian region has been a main subject of scholarly investigation. However, a scarcity of well-preserved and accurately dated human fossil remains makes these investigations difficult. Location of Tongtianyan cave
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have unearthed remnants of what is believed to be the Earth’s most ancient fossil forest on the northern coastline of Devon and Somerset , UK. A reconstruction of a Calamophyton forest, where trees drawn measure
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have identified a fragment of the world’s oldest fossilized skin! The fossil, which belongs to a reptile resembling modern crocodiles, is nearly 300 million years old and was collected from the Richards Spur limestone
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New dating analysis of existing human remains found worldwide has raised questions about some of our current histories of human evolution. The existence of early Homo sapiens in Europe was over 150,000 years earlier than first
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Polish scientists have discovered the remains of over a thousand specimens of extinct animals from about 240 million years ago. Among them are the bones of a reptile unknown to science so far. Bones presented
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Numerous fossil sites in southern Africa preserve distinctive three-toed footprints that have been named Trisauropodiscus. For
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct sea
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds, ekes out an existence
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did not have a horn on its nose. Hornless rhinos were known to
