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 the case with a 6-centimeter-wide, unremarkable mass of bone and teeth that
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 newtoni, a massive flightless bird that weighed an astonishing 230kg (36 stone),
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 evidence of dinosaur presence. However, several dinosaur fossils have been reported over
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 more than three meters—making it one of the largest pterosaurs ever found
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 ago. The tundra was traversed by lumbering mammoths, while towering mastodons, fierce
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 lineages during the early Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago. This
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 variety of wildlife that once inhabited a cave in Nordland, Norway. The
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 that’s between 3 and 3.5 meters long and dates back a whopping
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 , UK. A reconstruction of a Calamophyton forest, where trees drawn measure
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 that could have soared the skies 168 million years ago during the
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 sea. Various-sized flying reptiles were present in the skies, and long-gone large
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 300 million years old and was collected from the Richards Spur limestone
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 operator at the Freedom Mine near Beulah was working the overnight shift
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 of Timorebestia koprii—the largest known specimen, almost 30 cm or 12 inches
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 mosasaur analyzed by University of Cincinnati paleontologist Takuya Konishi had a dorsal
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 as 20 sections of vertebrae belonging to an ichthyosaur called Ophthalmosaurus. Opthalmosaurus
