Paleontology Archive
Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A dinosaur specimen from Castellón, Spain represents a new proposed species of spinosaurid, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The identification of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable
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Fossils
AncientPages.com - Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of Australia's first long-distance walkers has been described after Flinders University paleontologists used advanced 3D scans and other technology to take
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have confirmed that 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered more than 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind ever
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A new paper from the University of Bristol rewrites the history of the darkest, most bizarre event in the history of paleontology.
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single "supercontinent" called Gondwana. Paleontologists have
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you'll see that their skulls sport an amazing variety of bony ornaments, ranging from the horns
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The Late Ordovician mass extinction event (LOME) has long been viewed as odd compared to other mass extinction events in Earth's history.
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Life reconstruction of Archopterus anjiensis.
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, or more precisely—a spinosaurid. The knowledge of the species is based on the most complete
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study published in the journal Science by an international team finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 20 years ago, the BBC's "Walking with Dinosaurs" TV documentary series showed a 25-meter-long Liopleurodon. This sparked heated debates over the size
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth's earliest animals managed to be picky
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal
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Paleontology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The world beneath our feet is sometimes full of surprises. South America has hundreds of kilometers of weird tunnels and peculiar caves. The
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Meet the "tadpole from hell," or to give the species its full name, Crassigyrinus scoticus. Digital reconstructions of broken fossils have revealed more
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans
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Paleontology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by
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