Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skullcap of Peking Man

　　December 2-4, 2019, Beijing
　　FIRST CIRCULAR
　　December 2, 2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the discovery of the first skullcap of Peking Man. Significant progress has been made in retrieving and studying human fossils and Paleolithic cultural remains from China and surrounding regions in recent years; notable advances in an...

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Research Progress

New Jurassic Non-avian Theropod Dinosaur Sheds ...

　　A new Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur from 163 million-year-old fossil deposits in northeastern China provides new information regarding the incredible richness of evolutionary experimentation that characterized the origin of flight in t...

A new Middle Pleistocene human skull found in C...

　　A team of scientists led by LIU Wu and WU Xiujie from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new Middle Pleistocene human skull ever found in southeastern China reve...

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China Daily: Scientists find rare dinosaur with...
By ZHANG ZHIHAO | China DailyUpdated: May 10, 2019 The cover of the journal Nature on Thursday. [Photo provided to China Daily]
　　Chinese scientists have discovered an "extremely rare" and "fantastical" Jurassic Period dinosaur species in Liaoni...

XinHua: Chinese scientists discover bizarre win...
Xinhua May 09 , 2019
　　Artistic illustration of a bizarre dinosaur with membranous wings discovered by Chinese scientists (Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
　　Chinese...

the First Herbivorous Filter-feeding Marine Reptile