Paleontology Archive
Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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News
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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Paleontology
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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Paleontology
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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News
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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Fossils
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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Paleontology
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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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Numerous fossil sites in
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - Ancient Pages.com - Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur –
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - To help resolve the scientific debate over whether it was a giant asteroid or volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs and
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called "goethite," the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Scientists have re-described a unique fossil animal from rocks nearly 520 million years old that fills in a gap in our understanding
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – When you think of dinosaurs, you might automatically imagine iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. But at the same time when
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco.
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists working in northern Alaska have discovered a tiny fossil mammal that thrived in what may have been among the coldest conditions
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have discovered and documented the largest known single dinosaur track site in Alaska. The site, located in
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists, led by Egyptian researchers, has made a groundbreaking discovery of a new species of extinct whale, Tutcetus rayanensis,
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a partial skeleton of a whale that lived about 40 million years ago. Researchers say it is possible this is
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