Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of the most complete diplodocid skeletons ever discovered in Europe is reported by paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. An illustration of the Diplodocus
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers in Wyoming, U.S., have uncovered two rare fossils of a Jurassic squid-like species that lived about 160 million years ago. The species, called Wyoteuthis linsterorum, is an ancient cephalopod known as a belemnite and is
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.4 million years ago. An international team from the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A collection of fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming features tooth marks that provide evidence that some bites were likely created by Tyrannosaurus rex, according to a new study. Tooth trace types on neural spine
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research challenges the long-held belief that flowering plants developed large fruits and seeds only after the dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago, when a huge asteroid struck Earth. In this scientific
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in Cell, suggests that South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system may be
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever to exist, thanks to new research by scientists at the University of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Documented for 200 years, the Iguanodontia group is expanding with the discovery of a brand-new species, the first known to bear spikes with properties never before observed in dinosaurs. Scientists from the CNRS¹ and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent discoveries have shed new light on the diversity of ancient human ancestors. The story goes back to 2009, when a team led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie uncovered eight foot bones dating back
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – There’s a new dinosaur species on the block. An international team, including a biologist from Penn State Lehigh Valley, discovered that a 75-million-year-old fossil classified as a different dinosaur is its own massive, duck-billed species.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur that made it may have been limping. The site near Ouray in Colorado is one of the
