ancient fossils

Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 26, 2017
The oldest fossil remains of Homo sapiens, dating back to 300,000 years, have been found at a site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.

By David Aragorn
Distant cousin of crocodile was 24ft long, had teeth like T-Rex and stood on its hind legs
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 7, 2017
Nicknamed Razana, the predator, which also scavenged on dinosaur carcasses, lived millions of years ago in Jurassic Madagascar

By David Aragorn
Extinct ‘Siberian unicorn’ may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 7, 2017
Scientists said that creature, which looked more like a rhino than a horse, went extinct 29,000 years ago instead of 350,000 after finding skull in Kazakhstan

By David Aragorn
Fossil mushroom discovered from the era of the dinosaurs
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2017
Scientists say the unique find, believed to be 115m years old, is similar to today’s fungi

By David Aragorn
The most important fossil you’ve never heard of
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 13, 2017
It’s not a household name, but an ancient creature found in the Scottish borders fills a crucial period in the evolutionary record. It sheds light on how four-limbed creatures became established on land.

By David Aragorn
Tully monster mystery continues to perplex scientists
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 1, 2017
“In April 2016, I wrote about the 308-million-year-old Tully monster. It was about a foot long, had a squid-like diamond-shape tail and a long snout ending in a claw.” ~~ Dale Gnidovec

By David Aragorn
Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians. Their bones tell a different story.
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 28, 2017
To hear the Romans tell it, the arrival of Huns at the empire’s border was an unmitigated catastrophe.

By David Aragorn
Mystery over ‘giant, fossilised footprint of web-toed beast’ discovered embedded in rock in China
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- March 24, 2017
Sightings of the beast usually come from North America, but this lasted video was shot in Indonesia

By David Aragorn
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 23, 2017
24 feet tall and three feet wide, these giant spires dotted the ancient landscape.

By David Aragorn
The Permian Extinction—When Life Nearly Came to an End
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 12, 2017
A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the 10-foot (0.3-meter) predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today’s South Africa. In less than a million years Dinogorgon vanished in the greatest mass extinction ever, along with about nine of every ten plant and animal species on the planet.

By David Aragorn