Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a partial skeleton of a whale that lived about 40 million years ago. Researchers say it is possible this is the heaviest animal ever to have lived. Until now, Balaenoptera musculus, the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the “Spence Shale Lagerstätte” have revealed an ancient sea worm unknown to science until now. When she found the fossil,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new species of dinosaur was discovered in Northeastern Thailand, in 2012, and now, a team of multidisciplinary experts in paleontology led by Sita Manitkoon of the Palaeontological Research and Education Center of Mahasarakham University,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The study of a new species of coelacanth from the Middle Triassic period, with a strange morphology for these fish known as “living fossil,” show the formation of several species in a short time, after
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany 150 million years ago. Image credit: University of Tübingen The fossil is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research by scientists from Ireland (University College Cork), China (Nanjing and Yunnan Universities), and the UK (University
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Canadian and Chinese scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. Fossil showing the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) has been named by a team of British, American and German researchers. The animal was nicknamed “Elvis” when the fossil was first
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned paleontologist Dr. Steve Etches MBE, in Kimmeridge, Dorset, the fist-shaped fossil originates
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived. Unearthed in the Swiss Alps between 1976 and 1990, the discovery includes the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered. Researchers found evidence that forests might
