Paleontology Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton, estimated

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

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

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