Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new armored dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was discovered in the Wessex formation on the Isle of Wight
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do. When our early Homo sapiens ancestors first arrived in Southeast Asia on
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the U.K. has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and paleontologists at the University of Portsmouth. The fossil remains are the earliest of a so-called side-necked pan-pleurodiran
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 global dinosaur populations. Iani smithi. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez The specimen, named Iani
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 of complex behavior. The bones were buried about 30 meters (100 feet)
AncientPages.com – Palaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology with biology and many other scientific disciplines. But a lot of palaeontology really is about rocks. For 200 years, hammers
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 that emerges around the age of two. Image credit: Dariusz Sankowski –
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A team of Argentine paleontologists discovered a new herbivorous species of giant dinosaurs that lived about 90 million years ago. A team of Argentine paleontologists find giant fossil remains of herbivorous dinosaur. Image credit: La
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 those of any known reptile. Credit: Fossils (2023). DOI: 10.3390/fossils1010002 Along with other recent
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What can human hands possibly have in common with fish fins? Not much, most would say. However, according to scientists, fossil evidence offers remarkable insight into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Half a billion years ago, an unusual-looking animal crawled over the sea floor, using tentacles to pick up food particles along the way. Known as Rotadiscus grandis, this animal lived during the Cambrian period, when a
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 and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment presents the earliest
