Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton, imprisoned in calcite formations, remained hidden from view at the bottom of a sinkhole
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly identified the earliest humans. Figure 1: geometric morphometric analyses of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city of Dom Pedrito, the heart of the Campanha region and a city
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The first study of leaf fossils conducted in the nation of Brunei on the island of Borneo has revealed that the current dominant tree group, the dipterocarps, has dominated the rainforests for at least
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi, is known to have lived for approximately a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a 36-million-year-old skull of a huge fearsome marine monster that was lurking in the prehistoric oceans of Peru. Based on preliminary studies researchers suggest this ancient mammal was a basilosaurus, part of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have identified a new species of softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, just before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. It is one of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world, according to research published
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have gathered measurements of over 300 ancient fossils all over the world to analyze how climate change has altered our brain and body size. By combining this data with a reconstruction of the world’s
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from several universities around the world have studied ancient burial sites linked to some of the earliest houses in history around 10,000 – 8,000 years ago. “I think this new burial practice has to
