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
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 the bones of a reptile unknown to science so far. Bones presented
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 out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of
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 southern Africa preserve distinctive three-toed footprints that have been named Trisauropodiscus. For
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 in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct sea
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 not have a horn on its nose. Hornless rhinos were known to
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 place it between two well-known mosasaurs, the new species is named after
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 – a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs.
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 the first tritylodontid bonebed found in the Navajo Sandstone in Utah. These
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 time period just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Overview of the
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 most other species 66 million years ago, Dartmouth researchers tried a new
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 published in Nature researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden,
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 the Barychelidae family to be found. The discovery was made by a
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 dominated South America as the biggest and most bloodthirsty meat eater of
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 modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has been hampered by a
