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 of this pliosaur as it was thought to have been wildly overestimated
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 about where they lived. Life restoration of Obamus coronatus, a tiny, toroidally
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 even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study provides insights into
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 ancient builders of this subterranean world have long remained unidentified. Scientists admit
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 about the life of this ancient crocodile-like predator. Crassigyrinus was well adapted for
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 fossilized example of the world’s biggest “raptor” shows it’s 10 million years
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 “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally since the time of
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 spread throughout the rest of the world is one of the most
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 the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of
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 in snow, in the past, however, the location was not like this.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – We now know more about the diet of a prehistoric creature that grew up to two and a half meters long and lived in Australian waters during the time of the dinosaurs, thanks to
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 at the University of Bristol. An almost 8m-long specimen of Temnodontosaurus, a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Something as simple as a grass can fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. Studies published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant C4 grasses in eastern Africa and how C4 grasses
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 on all continents, including the giant Quetzalcoatlus that lived in North America.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The 300 million-year-old Tully monster is one of the weirdest animals scientists have encountered. Researchers have previously said that the ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in
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 worm with terrifying snapping jaws hidden in a museum. Compared to today’s
