Paleontology Archive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University and University of Bristol have revealed. Until

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com -  Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Paleontologists have discovered the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers have confirmed that 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered more than 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind ever

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Approximately 200 million years ago, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa, India, and Australia in a single "supercontinent" called Gondwana. Paleontologists have

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - If you look at enough dinosaur fossils, you'll see that their skulls sport an amazing variety of bony ornaments, ranging from the horns

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, or more precisely—a spinosaurid. The knowledge of the species is based on the most complete

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

Ellen Lloyd  - AncientPages.com - The world beneath our feet is sometimes full of surprises. South America has hundreds of kilometers of weird tunnels and peculiar caves. The

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a

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 – Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One can imagine how astonished scientists were when they found the remains of a previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant

AncientPages.com - In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible. Carnivores such as Titanophoneus, or "titanic