Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research led by the University of Bristol has uncovered that many mammals were already adapting to a terrestrial lifestyle several million years before the mass extinction event that eliminated the dinosaurs. This new study offers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers at Lund University in Sweden analyzed fossilized plesiosaur soft tissue for the first time, revealing it had both smooth and scaly skin, likely to swim rapidly and navigate rough seabeds. Reconstruction of the
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Recent groundbreaking research has revealed a significant discovery: fossils of the world’s oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered by scientists. These findings are reshaping our understanding of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. Examples of Lapworthella fasciculata shells (under scanning
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists. This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a such a strange assortment of features that scientists were unable to find
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ago. An Early Cretaceous floodplain in southeastern England,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Over a million years ago, in a bustling savanna near the future site of Lake Turkana in Kenya, two distinct hominin species might have crossed paths while scavenging for food. This conclusion comes from scientists
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The size of the human brain has long been of interest to scientists. A new study suggests humans have larger brains due to a long childhood. Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The fossilized skeleton of the newly discovered snake species Hibernophis breithaupti, which lived 38 million years ago in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Recent research has called into question a widely circulated theory regarding the origin of the griffin, a mythological creature. Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Important scientific discoveries do not necessarily come in grand or attention-grabbing forms. Sometimes, new findings emerge from unassuming and ordinary objects. Such is the case with a 6-centimeter-wide, unremarkable mass of bone and teeth that
