Fossils Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com  - University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The missing link has just been found between the earliest dinosaurs, whose size ranged from a few centimeters to at most three meters

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to

AncientPages.com - Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What can human hands possibly have in common with fish fins? Not much, most would say. However, according to scientists, fossil evidence offers

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen

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

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

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,

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C. is raising questions about how the dispersal

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth’s history to date, killing between 80-90% of life on the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  The quest to identify humans' oldest continues. As scientists explore the realm of animals that lived on this planet millions of years ago,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The research