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 global dinosaur populations. Iani smithi. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez The specimen, named Iani
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 years ago. They differed from complex eukaryotic life as we know it,
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 a potential new species suggests that the Iberian peninsula may have been
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 of complex behavior. The bones were buried about 30 meters (100 feet)
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 a lot of palaeontology really is about rocks. For 200 years, hammers
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 that emerges around the age of two. Image credit: Dariusz Sankowski –
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 a new look at the partial remains of a 3.5 million year
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 found in Australia, providing a rare glimpse into the life of these
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. In New York, in May of 1871, the partially built, life-size models
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 long wondered about the unique mammals that lived only on this ancient
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 years before the cataclysmic event. Credit: Public Domain Non-avian dinosaurs were probably
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 of Triceratops and the mohawk-like crests of hadrosaurs to the bumps and
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. Contrary to nearly all other major extinction phases known from the fossil
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 those of any known reptile. Credit: Fossils (2023). DOI: 10.3390/fossils1010002 Along with other recent
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. Credit: Yang Dinghua A new Ordovician eurypterid, Archopterus anjiensis, from the latest
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 fossil skull known from this group. With the aid of X-ray computed
