Fossils Archive
Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research led by the University of Bristol has uncovered that many mammals were already adapting to a terrestrial lifestyle several million years before
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Researchers at Lund University in Sweden analyzed fossilized plesiosaur soft tissue for the first time, revealing it had both smooth and scaly
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent groundbreaking research has revealed a significant discovery: fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists. This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Over a million years ago, in a bustling savanna near the future site of Lake Turkana in Kenya, two distinct hominin species might
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The size of the human brain has long been of interest to scientists. A new study suggests humans have larger brains due to
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The fossilized skeleton of the newly
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Recent research has called into question a widely circulated theory regarding the origin of the griffin, a mythological creature. Painting of a
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Important scientific discoveries do not necessarily come in grand or attention-grabbing forms. Sometimes, new findings emerge from unassuming and ordinary objects. Such is
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - North America was once a realm dominated by megafauna, colossal creatures that roamed the land during the last ice age, approximately 50,000 years
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The emergence of Homo sapiens in the Eastern Asian region has been a main subject of scholarly investigation. However, a scarcity of well-preserved and accurately
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have unearthed remnants of what is believed to be the Earth's most ancient fossil forest on the northern coastline of Devon and Somerset
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified a fragment of the world's oldest fossilized skin! The fossil, which belongs to a reptile resembling modern crocodiles, is nearly
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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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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Numerous fossil sites in
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western:
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists from Tübingen have redefined a rhinoceros genus that had fallen into oblivion: Eochilotherium lived more than 5 million years ago and did
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur –
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper
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Paleontology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called "goethite," the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Fossils from Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba become the oldest astronauts to travel to space, flying on Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Unity. In
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Scientists have re-described a unique fossil animal from rocks nearly 520 million years old that fills in a gap in our understanding
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A team of paleontologists from the University of Canterbury has discovered a remarkably intact fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory
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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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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Footprints on a sandy surface don't usually last long: they're washed away by water, wiped out by wind or covered over by new tracks. At certain
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Fossils
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers recently studied the remains of a modern human baby unearthed in the Grotte du Renne ("Reindeer's cave") located in Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France.
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed
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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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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as "living
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In a new study published in JMIRx Bio, one of JMIR Publications’ new overlay journals, scientist Floe Foxon explores whether the Loch
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Fossils
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
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Evolution
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
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