Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com– Fossil bones from two newly described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live—weighing more than 150 kilograms, more than three times the size of the largest living penguins—have
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 planet, though finding definitive evidence for what caused the dramatic changes in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science—led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents
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 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientists at
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up to now. Leslea Hlusko, a scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación
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 evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of early animal life, according to new research. Scientists believe atmospheric
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 than the oldest fossils suggest, according to new research. These first simple
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Every modern mammal, from a platypus to a blue whale, is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago. We don’t know much about this animal, but an international team
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, the evolution picture becomes more complete. Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata. Credit:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire. Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed
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 team analyzed 166-million-year-old fossils of a type of animal called Marmorerpeton, found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton, imprisoned in calcite formations, remained hidden from view at the bottom of a sinkhole
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 identified the earliest humans. Figure 1: geometric morphometric analyses of
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 of Dom Pedrito, the heart of the Campanha region and a city
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 that allow us to hear. The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP
