Fossils Archive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Ancient 2-meter-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed according to a new study. During the Late Permian Period, just

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

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi, is known to have lived for approximately a quarter of a million years in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have identified a new species of softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have gathered measurements of over 300 ancient fossils all over the world to analyze how climate change has altered our brain and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from several universities around the world have studied ancient burial sites linked to some of the earliest houses in history around 10,000