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Middle Triassic Fossils Reveal How Flying Fish Started to Glide |
| Modern flying fish are remarkable for leaping from the water to glide in the air using long, winglike fins, presumably to escape aquatic predators. This extraordinary gliding strategy, unlike those in terrestrial gliders, is energetically very expensive and has otherwise been hypothesized to occur only in a single s... |
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First Known Skull of the Muntjak Eostyloceros Found in China |
| Dr. DENG Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported a new species of the muntjak Eostyloceros in the journal of Zootaxa 3893 (3) recently. The new species, Eostyloceros hezhengensis sp. nov., is established based on a skull with it... |
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Extraordinary Fossil Reveals the Origin of Mating by Copulation |
A profound new discovery announced October 19 in Nature by an international team led by world-renowned palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.
In one of the biggest discoveries in the evolutionary hi... |
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First Asian Coelophysoid Dinosaur Discovered in Lufeng, Yunnan, China |
| Coelophysoid dinosaurs represent the earliest major radiation of neotheropods. These small-to-medium-sized agile bipeds lived throughout much of Pangaea during the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic. However, despite the well-documented discoveries of coelophysoids in North America and Africa, the coelophysoid material t... |
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New progress of the Neogene Suidae research |
| Dr. HOU Sukuan and Prof. DENG Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new species of Chleuastochoerus from the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, China, and discussed the systematic position of the genus. Their latest research result was pu... |
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Scientists Reveal the Complex Early Evolution of the Bird’s ‘Breastbone’ |
| It has always been difficult to understand how birds evolved from dinosaurs because of the strange combination of features observed in taxa inferred to be situated near this great evolutionary transition. For example, the sternum, also called the 'breastbone', is a large bone to which the lower ends of the bird's ri... |
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Nearest Ancestor of Living Bears Discovered from Gansu, China |
| In the last ten years or so, a number of skulls of Indarctos, Agriotherium and Ursavus have been collected from the Late Miocene deposits in the Linxia Basin. Since so far no complete Ursavus skull has ever been found and reported, and a number of questions pertaining to the origin, phylogeny and classification of t... |
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