Paleontology Archive
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur that made it may have
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Approximately 360 million years ago, during the Late Devonian Period, a formidable armored fish called Dunkleosteus terrelli dominated the shallow subtropical seas
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - New fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, from the Campanian (80 million years ago) pushes back the evolutionary timeline of Dyrosauridae and highlights Egypt’s
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A “teenaged” pachycephalosaur from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert may provide answers to lingering questions around the dinosaur group. The fossil represents a new species
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Over 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, the region now known as northern Illinois, excluding Chicago, was characterized by vibrant ecosystems.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A remarkable fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exceptionally preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unparalleled view into early
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. 3D color maps of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study by scientists from Durham University and Yunnan University has led to a significant reclassification of a peculiar spiny fossil, initially believed
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex, which evolved in North America, has its direct ancestor
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest specimen known to science. The hell ant, which
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The human face is notably different from that of our fossil relatives and ancestors. It is characterized by being significantly smaller and more
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A team of scientists led by Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney paleontologist Dr. Matthew McCurry has described a new species of 15-million-year-old
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The oldest known dinosaur fossils, dating back approximately 230 million years, have been discovered in southern regions such as Brazil, Argentina, and Zimbabwe.
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com – Researchers from Oxford and Birmingham Universities discovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints, forming multiple large
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study reports a new species of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Cuenca, Spain, 75 million years ago: Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. General
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Theropod dinosaurs are a crucial group that includes famous predators like Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and modern birds. Various theropod species existed during the
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Researchers have found that the pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in paleogenomics. They have identified fossilized chromosomes in the remains of a woolly
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During the age of dinosaurs, life thrived on the surface and beneath it. Recent paleontological findings have unveiled a new ancestor of Thescelosaurus,
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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
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The discovery of a 246-million-year-old nothosaur vertebra on New Zealand’s South Island has provided valuable insights into the early evolution of sea-going reptiles
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a prehistoric "giant goose" skull in Australia sheds light on an extraordinary extinct species. This fossil belongs to the Genyornis
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A significant fossil discovery has provided valuable insights into the history of dinosaurs in Wales. Until recently, the land of the dragon lacked any
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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
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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
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The capacity to regulate body temperature, a characteristic common to all contemporary mammals and avian species, may have originated among specific dinosaur
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Through DNA analysis and examination of ancient animal remains, archaeologists, geologists, and biologists contributed with their expertise and have successfully pieced together the
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have made an exciting discovery in the Peruvian Amazon - a new species of freshwater dolphin
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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
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A remarkable discovery was made on Skye, Scotland's second-largest island. Researchers unearthed the skeleton of a new pterosaur species, a flying dinosaur
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 200 million years ago, in the Late Triassic, South West England was an archipelago of small islands set in a warm sub-tropical
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Coal miners in North Dakota have discovered a 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of years. A shovel
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - MessageToEagle.com - Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. Fossil
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago. A
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have uncovered parts of a Jurassic sea creature in a quarry near Peterborough, United Kingdom. Fossil hunter Jamie Jordan unearthed as many
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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
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - McGill researchers challenge current understanding of dinosaur extinction by unearthing link between volcanic eruptions and climate change. Image credit: Public Domain What wiped
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