Paleontology Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - McGill researchers challenge current understanding of dinosaur extinction by unearthing link between volcanic eruptions and climate change. Image credit: Public Domain What wiped

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 newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Life reconstruction of Archopterus anjiensis.

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by

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

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and