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03 2011
Birds are the most diverse clade on the planet, and the skull of the living bird is one of the most highly modified and morphologically variable regions of their skeleton. The large diversity of enantiornithine bi...
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03 2011
As dinosaurs did not always enjoy mild climates, it has long been thought that the climate of the Mesozoic, the age of the dinosaurs, was generally warm across the planet. However, a recent study challenges this t...
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02 2011
Dr. Wang Yuanqing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, recently described a new specie of the lophialetid tapiroid, Minchenoletes erliane...
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02 2011
The Sino-American field expedition in the Shishugou Formation at the Wucaiwan locality in the Junggar Basin north of the Tian Shan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, led by Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Pal...
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01 2011
A new species of dinosaur the size of a parrot and with only one finger has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China.
Scientists named the new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus, after Linhe, a nearby city in Inn...
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01 2011
Dr. Wang Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, described two new long-tailed pterosaurs, Kunpengopterus sinensis gen. et sp. nov. ...
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12 2010
Drs Qiao Tuo and Zhu Min, from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently described cranial morphology features of the stem-group sarcopterygian Guiyu oneiro...
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12 2010
Drs Li Chaorong, Feng Xingwu and Li Hao, Instutute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported their study on technics and activities of the upper Palaeolithic people (O...
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10 2010
Drs. ZHANG Ying-Qi and JIN Chang-Zhu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently described a partial macaque skeleton (Mammalia, Primates) from Queque Cave, J...
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10 2010
Fig. 1. The human remains from Zhiren Cave. The Zhiren 3 mandible in anterior (A), lateral left (B), and superior (C) views. The midsymphyseal cross-section of the Zhiren 3 mandible (D). The Zhiren 1M3 in buc...
