Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.4 million years ago. An international team from the US and Kenya discovered tracks of eight Paranthropus boisei individuals, an extinct relative of modern […]
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 fragments. A) Punctures on opposing surfaces in neural spine HRS01295. The image only depicts one of
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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 illustration reconstruction of a Late Cretaceous forest, a small mammal and a horned dinosaur eat
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in Cell, suggests that South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system may be the first known sex-specific burial site attributed to a non-human species. Homo naledi, an extinct
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 Manchester and the Natural History Museum. Measuring around a meter in length and armed with
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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 their international partners have uncovered in China the fossilised skin of an exceptionally well-preserved juvenile
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent discoveries have shed new light on the diversity of ancient human ancestors. The story goes back to 2009, when a team led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie uncovered eight foot bones dating back 3.4 million years in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift. This fossil, known as the Burtele Foot, was
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus. The 1.5 to 1.6 million-year-old fossil, called DAN5, was found at the site of Gona,
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – There’s a new dinosaur species on the block. An international team, including a biologist from Penn State Lehigh Valley, discovered that a 75-million-year-old fossil classified as a different dinosaur is its own massive, duck-billed species. Working with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, the team named the
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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 most continuous and tightly turning sauropod trackways ever documented. Footprints which make up the West
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