Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. Fossil showing the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) has been named by a team of British, American and German researchers. The animal was nicknamed “Elvis” when the fossil was first
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned paleontologist Dr. Steve Etches MBE, in Kimmeridge, Dorset, the fist-shaped fossil originates
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed in the Swiss Alps between 1976 and 1990, the discovery includes the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered. Researchers found evidence that forests might
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Basel researcher stumbles across first real proof of monitor lizards in Switzerland, and this unexpected discovery was made in the Museum’s collection storeroom. Two teeth of a large lizard caught the eye of paleontologist Bastien
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a short time before
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – How the megalodon, a shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, stayed warm was a matter of speculation among scientists. Using an analysis of tooth fossils from the megalodon and other sharks of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who have unlocked new evolutionary information following the discovery of a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had extremely long necks compared to reptiles today. While it was clearly a successful evolutionary strategy, paleontologists have long suspected that their long-necked bodies made them
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters in length, and more recent giants that could be more than twice
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new armored dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was discovered in the Wessex formation on the Isle of Wight
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs — dinosaurs with fearsome crocodile-like skulls — inhabited southern England over 100 million years ago.
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 University of Portsmouth. The fossil remains are the earliest of a so-called side-necked pan-pleurodiran
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 now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the
