Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur – a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered the first tritylodontid bonebed found in the Navajo Sandstone in Utah. These
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. In September 2021, scientists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called “goethite,” the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of the Barychelidae family to be found. The discovery was made by a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Fossils from Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba become the oldest astronauts to travel to space, flying on Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity. In a historic first, two fossils of ancient human relatives traveled to space
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have re-described a unique fossil animal from rocks nearly 520 million years old that fills in a gap in our understanding of the evolution of animals known as arthropods. The animal, which has
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A team of paleontologists from the University of Canterbury has discovered a remarkably intact fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of a group of birds now restricted to the tropics. Tropicbirds, now represented
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind. Palaeopycnogonides gracilis (normal colour) – Image credit: Dr Romain Sabroux These
AncientPages.com – Footprints on a sandy surface don’t usually last long: they’re washed away by water, wiped out by wind or covered over by new tracks. At certain sites in southern Africa, though, some traces of animals have lasted for
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian that was found in a retaining wall in the 1990s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne (“Reindeer’s cave”) located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France. The cave is considered as one of the most fascinating Paleolithic sites
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, marking the earliest known evolution
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated by an international team of researchers in Hualongdong (HLD), East China. Anterior
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as “living fossil,” show the formation of several species in a short time, after
