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LiveScience:Tiny Bird Fossil Solves Big Mystery About Life After Dinosaurs |
A teeny-tiny fossilized bird skeleton is helping researchers understand the explosive rate at which birds diversified after the dinosaur age, new research shows.
The newfound skeleton dates back to about 62.5 million to 62 million years ago, making it the oldest known modern bird specimen in North America t... |
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China Daily:Pterosaurs take flight from the sands of time |
The discovery of a number of fossils at a site in northwestern China was a closely guarded secret for nearly 10 years. Now, the ancient relicts are set to go on display, as Cheng Yingqi reports from Hami prefecture, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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Nature:Palaeontology: Tracing the backbone in China's rocks |
Xu Xing relishes a bilingual book on the evolution of vertebrate life in his fabulously fossil-rich country.From Fish to Human: The March of Vertebrate Life in China
Corwin Sullivan, Wang Yuan and Brian Choo Popular Science: 2015. ISBN: 9787110089378
Buy this book: US UK Japan
China's rich fossil re... |
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Feathered fossils from China reveal dawn of modern birds |
By Michael Balter
Put yourself on the planet 130 million years ago. Most of the animals, from horned dinosaurs to swimming, predatory plesiosaurs, would be deeply alien, not to say terrifying. But rising from the wetlands and winging across the sky were birds startlingly like today’s. That’s the message f... |
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Scientists Discover Pigeon-size Dinosaur With Bat Wings |
| By Will Dunham, Reuters WASHINGTON - Scientists in China on Wednesday described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the first birds. The dinosaur, named Yi qi (meaning "strange wing" in Mandarin and pronounced EE-chee), lived a... |
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Bat-Winged Dinosaur Discovery Poses Flight Puzzle |
A newly described tiny creature has forelimb bones thought to support aerofoil membranes May 1, 2015 |By Sid Perkins and Nature magazine
A small, feathered dinosaur that probably sported bat-like wing membranes might have been able to glide or fly short distances. The fossilized remains of the creature, une... |
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First 3D pterosaur eggs found with their parents |
This image depicts ecological reconstructions of Hamipterus. Credit: Chuang Zhao
Researchers have discovered the first three-dimensionally preserved pterosaur eggs in China. The eggs were found among dozens, if not hundreds, of pterosaur fossils, representing a new genus and species (Hamipterus tianshanensi... |
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Stunning fossil eggs provide insight on ancient flying reptiles |
By By Will Dunham June 5, 2014 12:23 PM
An artist rendition depicts ecological reconstructions of Hamipterus, the flying reptiles that lived …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spectacular fossil find in China - a prehistoric egg extravaganza from 120 million years ago - is providing unique insight into the lif... |
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IVPP scientists receive 2013 State Natural Science Award of China |
IVPP scientists were conferred a second-class award of the 2013 State Natural Science Award (SNSA) in recognition of their achievements in the project “Studies on Origin and Early Evolution of Osteichthyes”. The award presentation ceremony was held today (January 10) in Beijing.
Osteichthyes, known as the bony... |
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IVPP’s Study Selected as One of Discover’s Top 100 Stories of 2013 |
| One research discovery from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, "The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution", developed by Dr. Xijun Ni, and his collaborators from USA and France, was honored as the 48th of this year's top 100 science ... |
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