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12 2013
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...
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12 2013
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...
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11 2013
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...
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10 2013
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...
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10 2013
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 ...
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09 2013
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 ...
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09 2013
Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known species of primate, lived mainly in South China during the Pleistocene. The enormous body size of this taxon, together with its special dietary proclivity and possible rel...
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07 2013
Find Helps Scientists Map Waves of Migration Across the Continents
Kevin Holden Last Modified: 25 Jul 2013 11:20
Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology extracted DNA ...
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06 2013
Platybelodon is a group of extinct Proboscidea with an elongated and flattened mandibular symphysis, known as “Shovel-tusked” elephant. They extended from the early Miocene to middle Miocene of Eurasia, and some...
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07 2013
It is widely accepted that birds are a subgroup of dinosaurs, but there is an apparent conflict: modern birds have been thought to possess only the middle three fingers (digits II-III-IV) of an idealized five-digi...
