Pre-Cenozoic terrestrial tetrapod burrows have been found in North America, Antarctica, Morocco, and Poland. These burrows are identified as the production of dicynodonts, cynodonts, therocephalians, therapsid or ...
A large number of large-sized long-snout ichthyosaur skeletons have been excavated from Guanling, Guizhou and adjacent areas since 2000. Totally 14 specimens had been described and reported often as different gene...
Eggysodontid is a group of extinct rhinocerotoid animals of odd-toed ungulate. Rhinocerotoid fossils are relatively abundant in Paleogene deposits in South China. Many previous studies have investigated Paleogene ...
The ischyromyids are the most primitive rodents that have a Holarctic Paleogene distribution. Members of the family are predominant in Paleogene rodents of North America, but are relatively rare in both Asia and E...
Protorosaur was a diverse marine reptile group characterized by long necks and elongated neck vertebrae bearing cervical ribs that extend across at least two intervertebral joints. The constitution of the protoros...
During the 2009 field season, an international team led by Dr. LI Qiang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered skull fragments of a fossil hyaen...
Pantherine felids, known as “big cats”, include the largest living cats, apex predators in their respective ecosystems. Although the oldest pantherine fossils occur in Africa, molecular phylogenies point to Asia...
The Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group in northeastern China has yielded the world’s greatest wealth of exceptionally well-preserved early birds. More than 30 bird taxa have been reported from the Jehol Group – approx...
A bird that lived 125 million years ago in what is today Western Liaoning of Northeast China had a unique “two-tail” plumage, according to a study published October 07 in the early edition of the Proceedings of ...
The evolution of jaws is one of the key episodes in the evolution of vertebrates, but the gap between jawed and jawless vertebrates is so large that it is hard to work out the individual evolutionary steps in the ...