Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of Borneo has revealed that the current dominant tree group, the dipterocarps, has dominated the rainforests for at least
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 Central Asia. A new study in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a 36-million-year-old skull of a huge fearsome marine monster that was lurking in the prehistoric oceans of Peru. Based on preliminary studies researchers suggest this ancient mammal was a basilosaurus, part of
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 Cretaceous Period, just before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. It is one of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world, according to research published
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 body size. By combining this data with a reconstruction of the world’s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species
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 – 8,000 years ago. “I think this new burial practice has to
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers have verified the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years. In addition, they found two new specimens
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and the ancient humans known from fossil records in Island Southeast Asia. However,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Early 20th-century anatomical research supported the view that humans evolved from a suspensory ancestor bearing some resemblance to apes. Charles Darwin and others recognized a close evolutionary relationship between humans, chimps, and gorillas based on
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -Researchers conduct scientific investigations regarding the remains of two apostles St. Philip and St. James the Younger. A Roman church has since the sixth century AD held relics, believed to be the remains of two apostles.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs are long gone, but their tracks have been preserved for millions of years, and we find evidence of these prehistoric animals in the most surprising places. Today it may be difficult to imagine dinosaurs
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The loss of tropical rainforests and grasslands that once dominated Southeast Asia caused the extinction of many of the region’s megafauna, and probably of ancient humans too, according to scientists from the Department of Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A milk-tooth found in the vicinity of “Riparo del Broion” on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one of the last Neanderthals in Italy. This small canine tooth belonged to a
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers say that urgent action is needed regarding a well-known Mesolithic site in southern Sweden – Ageröd. A 2019 survey of well-known archaeological site Ageröd reveals drastic bone and organic matter deterioration since the site’s
