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09 2011
Ice Age megafauna have long been known to be associated with global cooling during the Pleistocene and their adaptations to cold environments, such as large body size, long hair and snow-sweeping structures, are b...
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08 2011
Most living vertebrates are jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), and the living jawless vertebrates (cyclostomes), hagfishes and lampreys, provide scarce information about the profound reorganization of the vertebrat...
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07 2011
Scientists have identified a new species of Archaeopteryx-like theropod dinosaur from lake deposits formed about 160 million years ago in northeastern China. According to findings published online today (July 28th...
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07 2011
Although viviparity is most often associated with mammals, roughly one fifth of extant squamate reptiles give birth to live young.However, there is debate as to the antiquity of the trait and, until now, the only...
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06 2011
Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have reported that almost all brain endocasts display distinct cerebral asymmetry....
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06 2011
Endocasts are the most direct evidence for studying human brain evolution. Endocasts can provide information on brain size, general shape, morphology, and anatomical features of the external surface. Dr. WU Xiujie...
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06 2011
Gansu Province is the first place where Paleolithic artifacts with clear stratum were found in China. Most of these early finds were located in the eastern Loess Plateau, in the eastern part of the province. Arche...
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06 2011
The photograph of the skeleton of Gegepterus changae (By JIANG and WANG)
JIANG Shun-Xing and WANG Xiao-Lin, Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese ...
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06 2011
A Sino-American scientific team, lead by Dr. GAO Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out a systematic archeological investigation from June to Jul...
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06 2011
PANG Li-Bo, a graduate student paleontologist from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified two rare species of Hipparion- Hipparion (Baryhipparion) inspe...
