Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat, which lived in Wyoming about 52 million years ago, supports the idea
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 sheep station northwest of Winton in Queensland. The original skull bones of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An almost meter-long footprint made by a giant, a meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire. Curiously, the unusual footprint appears to capture the
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 present-day birds, dinosaurs had hollow bones with inner structures known as air
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that predatory dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, did not have permanently exposed teeth as depicted in films such as Jurassic Park, but instead had scaly, lizard-like lips covering and sealing
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 murderer,” stalked enormous armored reptiles the size of buffalo. An international team
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and other late Devonian arthrodire placoderms. Arthrodire placoderms are extinct fishes that had armor covering their head and
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 of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Ancient 2-meter-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed according to a new study. During the Late Permian Period, just over 250 million years ago, South Africa was home to rhinesuchid temnospondyls,
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 believed to be up to 30 feet long ruled the seas. The
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The ancient Tully Monster is a decades-old paleontological mystery scientists still cannot solve. The ancient animal is so weird it simply doesn’t fit any classification. First discovered in the 1950s in Mazon Creek, a
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, purple, or any other color? Researchers have discovered that a meteorite that
