Paleontology Archive

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One can imagine how astonished scientists were when they found the remains of a previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant

AncientPages.com - In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or "titanic

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – We all know that tomatoes are red. That's no news, but how did they become red, and why are they, not blue,