AncientPages.com – All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience ageing during their lives. Some animals’ bodies do not gradually degenerate as they get older the way our bodies do. Credit: Adobe Stock – emilio100 But for humans once they reach about age 30 […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mᴀss extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While they suffered some species loss, the devastating event helped flowering plants […]

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 – Pixabay A new study from Lund University in Sweden, published in Science Advances, suggests that […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new paper from the University of Bristol rewrites the history of the darkest, most bizarre event in the history of paleontology. In New York, in May of 1871, the partially built, life-size models of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures destined for a prestigious new museum in Central Park […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study provides insights into how these super giants achieved their record-breaking sizes over time. Credit: Adobe Stock – Orlando […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake. A geological study of the rock formation that encased a fossilized example of the world’s biggest “raptor” shows it’s 10 million years older than previously understood. The report, co-written by a researcher with the University of Kansas, […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – About 100 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, the climate was warmer than the present. Many new species appeared on all continents, including the giant Quetzalcoatlus that lived in North America. The Quetzalcoatlus compared to a man, car, and pterodactyl. Source Pinterest With a wingspan reaching […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like present-day birds, dinosaurs had hollow bones with inner structures known as air sacs, which made their skeletons lighter and less dense. These structures were apparently so advantageous […]

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that predatory dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, did not have permanently exposed teeth as depicted in films such as Jurᴀssic Park, but instead had scaly, lizard-like lips covering and sealing their mouths. Tyrannosaurus rex bellowing with its mouth shut, like a vocalizing alligator. With its […]