A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to Mode 2 technological features occupied East Asia as early as 1.1 million years ag...
Writing a commentary in the 50th anniversary issue of Cell, Qiaomei FU and E. Andrew Bennett, both of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explore...
A new study of a 7–8-million-year-old extinct fossil ape from China called Lufengpithecus offers new insights into the evolution of human bipedalism.
The study, published in The Innovation, was conducted...
A team of researchers from China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany has revealed advanced material culture in East Asia by 45,000 years ago.
The new study was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution o...
Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China, three-metre tall apes weighing in at 250 kilograms. These very distant human ancestors – Gigantopithcus blacki – went extinct before humans arrived in ...
The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to over 6 billion during the 20th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian herbivores, incl...
Elephants, as the largest terrestrial mammals, are renowned for their distinctive feature - the flexible and agile trunk. Described as the most sensitive organ among vertebrates, an elephant's trunk boasts at...
The discovery of several exceptionally preserved reproduction-related dinosaur specimens over the last three decades has improved our knowledge of dinosaur reproductive biology. Nevertheless, due to limited f...
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have reported two extremely rare fossil lampreys from the Jura...
Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has been ham...