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Systematic Position of <em>Archaeopteryx</em> Challenged? Archaeopteryx has been considered the most primitive and earliest known bird ever since its discovery, and has been placed at the base of Avialae in nearly all numerical phylogenetic analyses. In 2011, a parsimony-based phylogenetic study incorporating information of a new Archaeopteryx-like theropod, Xiaotingia zhengi, shifted its pos...
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New Homonin Site Found in Daoxian County, Hunan Province of China New Homonin Site Found in Daoxian County, Hunan...
A joint team from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Office for Cultural Relics Administration of Daoxian County, unearthed five hominin...
A Tandem-Horned Rhino From the Late Miocene Of Northwestern China Reveals Origin of the Unicorn Elasmothere A Tandem-Horned Rhino From the Late Miocene Of ...
Transition of a nasal horn to a frontal horn in elasmotheres has been difficult to explain, because a major transformational gap exists between nasal-horned ancestors and frontal-horned descendants. In a paper published in May 2013 in the journal ...
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IVPP Professor Honored to Give an Artedi Lecture in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences IVPP Professor Honored to Give an Artedi Lectur...
ZHU Min, a distinguished professor from the CAS Institute of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was invited to give a talk at the Artedi Lectures at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on 23 April. ...
ScienceDaily: Skulls of Early Humans Carry Telltale Signs of Inbreeding ScienceDaily: Skulls of Early Humans Carry Tell...
Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our an...
Hominin teeth  from the late Middle Pleistocene cave site of Panxian Dadong   Leg (hindlimb) Feathers First discovered in Early Birds   First Discovery of Fossilized Ovaries in Early Birds   the visualization of the placental ancestor—a small, insect-eating animal   The earliest known stem-tetrapod: <em>Tungsenia paradoxa</em>   Oldest flying fish fossil: <em>Potanichthys xingyiensis</em> (Thoracopteridae)   New Chalicothere Species: <em>Nestoritherium linxiaense</em>   New Genus Of Eugaleaspidiforms: <em>Dunyu longiforus</em>   New Basal Beaked Ornithurine Bird: <em>Schizooura lii</em>   Primitive Mammoth: <em>Mammuthus trogontherii</em>  
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