The Holocene is the primary epoch for the formation, differentiation and migratory patterning of Modern human populations throughout the world. Many changes in Homo sapiens’ lifestyle, culture, technology, behav...
The oviraptorids are a theropod group in which the kull and mandible are highly modified, and are characterized by a short snout, the absence of teeth, a tall mandible, a long parietal, an enlarged tooth-like pro...
Dr. Min Zhu, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his collaborators described a new genus and spec...
Dr. Meemann Chang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her collaborators, described a new amiine fossil fish, Cyclurus orientalis, from the early to middle E...
Dr. Pingfu Chen, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Gloria Arratia at the Biodiversity Research Center of the University of Kansas, described an oldest...
Through studying the newly-found cyprinid fish fossils, Drs. Wang Ning and Chang Meemann, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have shown that the existence of c...
Dr. Xing Xu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his collaborators, describe an early-juvenile specimen and a late-juvenile specimen, both referable to the ov...
Dr. Xing Xu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his collaborators, described a new dinosaur that was one of the smallest known and also one of the b...
Dr. Corwin Sullivan, a postdoctoral fellow from Canada, who is working at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP), and his collaborators at IVPP,found the...
Spinosaurs were large theropod dinosaurs showing peculiar specializations, including somewhat crocodile-like elongate jaws and conical teeth. Their biology has been much discussed, and a piscivorous diet has been ...