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
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
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AnientPages.com – The soft tissues preserved in Montsecosuchus depereti, a Lower Cretaceous crocodylomorph from the Pedrera de Meià site in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), are described in detail for the first time in a new
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 – An international team of researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton, estimated to be over 2 million years old. The fossil, labeled KNM-ER 64061,
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
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Approximately 360 million years ago, during the Late Devonian Period, a formidable armored fish called Dunkleosteus terrelli dominated the shallow subtropical seas that once covered what is now Cleveland. This species belonged to the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, from the Campanian (80 million years ago) pushes back the evolutionary timeline of Dyrosauridae and highlights Egypt’s Western Desert as a cradle of marine croc evolution. Life reconstruction of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. A reconstruction of
