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Phys.org: Asian elephant outlives stegodon—advantage due to diverse diet |
Together with their Chinese colleagues, Senckenberg scientists studied the feeding habits of the Asian elephant and its extinct relative, the stegodon, during the Pleistocene. They reached the conclusion that the Asian elephant had a more diverse diet, which gave it a distinct advantage. The study was recently ... |
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National Geographic：Ancient teeth hint at mysterious human relative |
FOUR TEETH FOUND in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads.
In 1972 and 1983, researchers extracted the roughly 200,000-year-old teeth from the silty sediments of the Yanhui cave floor, initially labeling them as Homo erectus, the upright-walking hominins though... |
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Xinhua：Scientists discover dinosaur-era bird fossil with unlaid egg |
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A group of scientists have discovered a fossil bird dating back about 110 million years, which is the first ever found to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen.
The fossil represents a new species, Avimaia schweitzerae, belonging to a group called the Enantiornithes which was abund... |
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Xinhua:Chinese study helps trace evolution of fish scales |
BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Fish fossils, dating back about 425 million years ago, are providing insights into the evolution of scales on bony fishes.
Diversified scales are one of the most obvious exterior characteristics of fish and they can be distributed in different areas of a fish in different shape... |
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Science: 'Superlungs' gave dinosaurs the energy to run and fight |
By April ReeseOct. 23, 2018 , 7:01 PM
In the oxygen-poor air of the Mesozoic era, nothing should have been able to move very fast. But Velociraptors could run 64 kilometers per hour. Their secret weapon: superefficient, birdlike lungs, which would have pumped in a constant supply of oxygen, according to a n... |
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National Geographaic: 'Messy' New Species of Dinosaur-Era Bird Discovered |
Paleontologists in China have discovered a new species of fossil bird that they say reveals a pivotal point in the evolution of flight, when birds had lost the long bony tail seen in dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and the early bird Archaeopteryx, but before they had developed the fan of feathers on a shortene... |
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Xinhua:New Dinosaurs Discovered in China Reveal Myth of Reduced "Fingers" |
Two new dinosaurs discovered in China may help solve the long mystery of how some of these creatures reduced and lost their "fingers" through evolution.
Flexible fingers have helped primates hunt and gather food, or even invent and use tools, a key step that gradually differentiates humans from apes. But me... |
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Reuters:'Amazing dragon' fossils rewrite history of long-necked dinosaurs |
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed on a hillside in northwestern China are forcing scientists to rethink the history of a dinosaur lineage that produced the largest animals ever to walk the planet.
Scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of Lingwulong shenqi, an early member o... |
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