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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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IVPP's Professor Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
ZHANG Miman (Meemann Chang), Professor of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently elected to the position of Foreign Member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. The Royal Swedish Acad... |
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IVPP's Research Ranks China's Top Ten Science Achievements of 2010 |
China's Top Ten Science Achievements of 2010, conducted by The Supervising Center of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, released on Jan 18, 2011. One research discovery from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Human remains from ... |
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IVPP research is part of Discover magazine's Top 100 Science Stories of 2010 |
Fig.1:Fossilized pigment organelles reveal the true colors of Sinosauropteryx (Courtesy of Dr. ZHANG Fucheng) One research discovery from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, “Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds... |
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National Geographic: Oldest Modern Human Outside of Africa Found |
Chinese fossil challenges traditional early-human time line, study says. Several views of a human jawbone and molars found in a Chinese cave. Diagram courtesy Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic News Publis... |
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