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06 2021
The giant rhino, Paraceratherium, is considered the largest land mammal that ever lived and was mainly found in Asia, especially China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. How this genus dispersed across Asia was ...
27
05 2021
A study led by research groups of Prof. Qiaomei FU (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Hucai ZHANG (Yunnan University) covers the larges...
14
06 2022
The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear.
Embryonic and fossil evidence...
03
06 2022
Fossils of a strange early giraffoid have revealed the key driving forces in giraffe evolution, according to a study led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of...
29
03 2022
A research team led by Dr. LI Zhiheng and Dr. Thomas Stidham from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered the amazingly well-preserve...
03
03 2022
A team of researchers from China, Germany, France and Spain, has revealed the lifestyle of humans living in East Asia 40,000 years ago.
The study was published in Nature on Mar. 2nd.
The study relies on fi...
16
02 2022
A study based on a new varanid fossil species from China shows that the transition from the ancient Varaniformes to Varanus occurred in Asia and supports the Asian origin of Varanidae.
The study was published ...
15
12 2021
A new fossil skeleton of an extinct species of bird from northeastern China that lived alongside dinosaurs 120 million years ago unexpectedly preserves a bony tongue that is nearly as long as its head.
The sku...
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11 2021
A commentary was recently published as a piece of Critiques & Debates at National Science Review (NSR) (hereinafter referred to as "Commentary"), which raised issues about the article (referred to as "Original") p...
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10 2021
New findings on the ~420-million-year-old fossil of Nochelaspis maeandrine found in Qujing help to unveil the mystery of the largest known eugaleaspiform, according to researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate ...
