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People's Daily:Smuggled dinosaur nest may be a fake |
By Cheng Yingqi (China Daily) 09:28, February 09, 201
Experts' opinions differ over veracity and worth of fossil back in China
BEIJING - A well-preserved nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs that was smuggled to the United States but returned to China may not be as valuable as first believed.
The 22 eggs ar... |
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IVPP ZHOU Zhonghe Elected Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe, professor and director of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was elected member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to the announcement released by CAS on 9th of December, 2011.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences announc... |
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LiveScience:Feathers Preserved in Amber Reveal Colorful, 'Fluffy' Dinosaurs |
By Jennifer Welsh | LiveScience.com – Thu, Sep 15, 2011
About 80 million years ago, the flap of wings in a conifer forest let loose feathers that floated through the air before sticking to globs of shining tree sap below.
Researchers in Western Canada have discovered these slicks of solidified sap, known as... |
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Chang-Kang HU Passed Away at Age 83 |
Photography by Dr. Jin Meng in 2010
Paleontologist whose studies of Quaternary mammal fossils excavated at Choukoutien, Beijing, the famous site of Homo erectus (Sinanthropus pekinensis) belong to the important research works in the field of Chinese paleontology. Chang-Kang Hu was the wife of Tung-Sheng Liu... |
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Sino-American Expedition Produced Birch Mouse Ancestor in Inner Mongolia |
Fig.1: Sicista primus, a new species of birch mice, identified from 17 tiny teeth from Early Miocene deposits in the central region of Inner Mongolia. (Credit: Yuri Kimura/Southern Methodist University)
A Sino-American scientific team, sponsored by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropol... |
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IVPP’s Professor to Receive Honorary Degree from Chicago University |
| Meemann Chang (ZHANG Miman), a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, will receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago during the 507th Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2011, as announced... |
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Japanese Cartoonist Returned a Dinosaur Specimen to China |
| A dinosaur jawbone referred to Probactrosaurus gobiensis, an early herbivorous iguanodontid dinosaur from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Inner Mongolia, China, returned to China after having been lost since 1962. The returning ceremony was held at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), ... |
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Science News: Long-Sought Fossil Mammal With Transitional Middle Ear |
The skeleton of the new mammal Liaoconodon hui (dorsal view of the holotype, IVPP V16051, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing). (Credit: Meng, et al 2011 ( Nature))
Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Chinese Academy of Sciences announce the d... |
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Chinese Paleontologists Raise Doubts About a Cheetah Fossil in Science |
| In a 24 December 2010 News Focus story in Science, Dr. DENG Tao, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented a query for a 2009 PNAS paper by Per Christiansen of the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen and Ji H. Mazák of the Shanghai Science and Technology ... |
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