Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have identified a novel fossil species of worm lizard in Tunisia. Named Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, this species represents the largest known member
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study reports a new species of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Cuenca, Spain, 75 million years ago: Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. General
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists from Germany and the UK identified a new ancient marine crocodile species, Enalioetes schroederi, providing insights into dinosaur-era biodiversity. Enalioetes life
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Recent research has called into question a widely circulated theory regarding the origin of the griffin, a mythological creature. Painting of a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – During the Carboniferous period, spanning over 300 million years ago, the coal forests of North America and Europe were inhabited by a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various Western and Central European regions since the 19th century. A reconstruction
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new dinosaur species may be the closest known relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, a new study says. A new study published in Scientific Reports reshapes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western:
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.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
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C., is raising questions about how the dispersal
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of researchers have now solved a 150-year-old mystery about aetosaurs -reptiles that died out about 204 million years ago, at
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fossil bones from two newly described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live—weighing more than
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers made an interesting discovery of fossils dating back 250.8 million years near the Guizhou region of China. The discovery suggests that
