Paleontology

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 […]

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

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, from the Campanian (80 million years ago) pushes back the evolutionary timeline of Dyrosauridae and highlights Egypt’s Western Desert as a cradle of marine croc evolution. Life reconstruction of Wadisuchus kassabi from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt, showing an adult capturing a lungfish in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis eating a mammal. Credit: Mick Ellison/©AMNH One of the oldest relatively complete fossil