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06 2025
“What Denisovans looked like, despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians? ” This is one of the most important questions that has arisen since the discovery of the Denisovans 15 ...
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05 2025The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of eggshell units. Those growing from the shell membrane are called primary eggshell units (PEUs), whi...
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05 2025
Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science on May 29, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of Vert...
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05 2025
Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossil animals in the world. Its discovery shortly after the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species offered strong support for the theory of evolution. For more t...
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02 2025
A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era rocks from Fu...
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01 2025The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. As the apex predator in the region, the snow leopard plays a crucial role in maintaining ecologica...
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09 2024
Food fermentation is the oldest production practice using microorganisms in human history. Milk fermentation, for example, can be traced back to 6000–4000 BC in India, and Mediterranean populations produced and c...
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05 2024
According to a study published in Current Biology on May 22, the genetic components of the ancient populations in the western Tibetan Plateau are closest to ancient populations in the southern Tibetan Plateau, and...
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04 2024
Mammaliaforms are extinct and extant organisms that are closely related to mammals. Studying mammaliaforms helps scientists understand the evolutionary processes that led to various mammalian features.
In two ...
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03 2024
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 ago (Ma...
