Fossils Archive
Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New dating analysis of existing human remains found worldwide has raised questions about some of our current histories of human evolution. The existence
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Polish scientists have discovered the remains of over a thousand specimens of extinct animals from about 240 million years ago. Among them are
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated
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Fossils
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
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Fossils
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
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Fossils
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
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Paleontology
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
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Argentine paleontologists discovered a new herbivorous species of giant dinosaurs that lived about 90 million years ago. A team of
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Fossils
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
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Evolution
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
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Paleontology
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
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Featured Stories
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily - not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have verified the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through East Africa. It is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains in
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