Paleontology Archive

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

Conny Waters - Ancient Pages.com -  Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - To help resolve the scientific debate over whether it was a giant asteroid or volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs and

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

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – When you think of dinosaurs, you might automatically imagine iconic dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. But at the same time when

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists working in northern Alaska have discovered a tiny fossil mammal that thrived in what may have been among the coldest conditions

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the "Spence Shale Lagerstätte" have revealed an ancient

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research by scientists from Ireland

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the

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 - Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton (UK) studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs -- dinosaurs with