Megalodon Was No Cold-Blooded Killer – Tooth Minerals Reveal
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – How the megalodon, a shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, stayed warm was a matter of speculation among scientists. Using an analysis of tooth fossils from the megalodon and other sharks of the same period, a study suggests the animal was able to maintain a body temperature […]
Lost Ancient Golden City Of Vineta – The Atlantis Of The North
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com -Many have tried to find the legendary ancient golden city of Vineta, but the place’s location remains an unsolved mystery. Did Vineta really exist, or was it only a mythical city? Do the ancient ruins of Vineta lie hidden somewhere beneath the water of the Baltic Sea? Ancient stories tell that […]
9,000-Years-Old Underwater Artifacts Found Off The Western Australia Pilbara Coast – Protect Flying Foam Pᴀssage Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely hidden beneath the sea. Satellite map of Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago). Credit: Professor Jonathan Benjamin at Flinders University […]
Discovery Of Ancient Marine Reptile Fossil – New Evolutionary Insight
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – University of North Florida faculty member Dr. Barry Albright is part of a research team led by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who have unlocked new evolutionary information following the discovery of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National […]
New Model Of Human Evolution Overturns Previous Beliefs A Single African Population Gave Rise To All Humans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human evolution, overturning previous beliefs that a single African population gave rise to all humans. “This uncertainty is due to limited fossil […]
Humans’ Evolutionary Relatives Butchered One Another 1.45 Million Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another. View of the hominin tibia and magnified area that shows cut marks. Scale = 4 cm. Credit: Jennifer Clark. In a new study published June 26, […]
Shepherd’s Monument Mystery: Yet Another Undeciphered Inscription
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that, until this day, remain undeciphered. Multiple attempts to solve the enigma have failed. Many of the world’s greatest minds have tried to crack the code but without success, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. […]
Unicorns In Southern Africa: The Fascinating Story Behind One-Horned Creatures In Rock Art
AncientPages.com – One-horned creatures are found in myths around the world. Although unicorns in different cultures have little to do with one another, they have multiple ᴀssociations in European thought. For example, the Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder wrote about unicorns in the first century AD. The unicorn features in both medieval Christian and Celtic beliefs, and is Scotland’s national animal. The […]
Long-Necked Reptiles Were Decapitated By Their Predators, Fossil Evidence Confirms
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – In the age of dinosaurs, many marine reptiles had extremely long necks compared to reptiles today. While it was clearly a successful evolutionary strategy, paleontologists have long suspected that their long-necked bodies made them vulnerable to predators. Now, after almost 200 years of continued research, direct fossil evidence confirms […]
Ancient Maya City And Pyramids Discovered In Mexican Jungle
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in the Yucatán Peninsula. Mexico’s National Insтιтute for Anthropology and History (INAH) has announced LIDAR spotted “numerous concentrations of pre-Hispanic structures.” Archaeologists located a number of buildings including […]