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Location: Home > Research > Research Progress     Research Progress 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... Functional Analysis Reveals Miocene Fossil Pig’s Foraging Behavior Foraging behavior and adaptations for feeding in the context of habitat condition have been studied widely in living suids (pigs) but rarely in their fossil relatives. A study published in Science China: Earth Sciences (5) compared the skull and mandible of a Late Miocene fossil pig from the Linxia Basin, Gansu Prov... Re-examination of Fukangichthys Provides New Insights into the Evolution of Early Actinopteran Fishes The scanilepiform ray-finned fish Fukangichthys longidorsalis, from the Middle Triassic non-marine Kelamayi Formation of Xinjiang, China, was previously described incompletely, with many of its morphological characteristics unnoticed or misidentified. A study published online July 08 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleont... Ancient Chinese Skull Has Neandertal-like Inner Ear A closer look based on micro-CT scans at a 100,000-year-old human skull that was recovered 35 years ago in China revealed that it had an inner ear formation that was thought only to have occurred in Neanderthals. In comparison, none of the three other archaic human skulls analyzed from different parts of China had t... Largest Silurian Vertebrate Discovered from Yunnan, China An apparent absence of Silurian fishes more than half-a-metre in length has been viewed as evidence that gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) were restricted in size and diversity prior to the Devonian. A team led by Professor ZHU Min, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Acad... Extinct Tibetan Fox Suggests High Tibet Was Cradle of Evolution for Cold-adapted Mammals For the last 2.5 million years, our planet has experienced cold and warm, millennia-long cycles that collectively have become known as the Ice Age. During cold periods, continental-scale ice sheets blanketed large tracts of the northern hemisphere. As the climate warmed up, these colossal glaciers receded, leaving Y... Sexually Dimorphic Tridimensionally Preserved Pterosaurs and Their Eggs Found from China The pterosaur record is generally poor, with little information about their populations, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer, with only four isolated and flattened eggs found to date. Dr. WANG Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and his t... Oldest Ionoscopiform Fish Found from the Middle Triassic of South China Ionoscopiform fishes have been known only from the Late Jurassic of Europe and the Early Cretaceous of the New World, although potential ionoscopiforms based on poorly preserved specimens, questionably assigned in the genus Ophiopsis, have been reported from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Italy and Austria. Accor... New Material from the Miocene of Ningxia (Western China) Reveals Life History of Platybelodon The middle Miocene Dingjiaergou Fauna in Tongxin County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, western China has yielded 27 taxa from more than 10 families and is approximately equivalent to European Neogene mammal zone (MN) 6. During recent fieldwork, Drs. WANG Shiqi and YE Jie, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Pa... New Dinosaur Egg with Avian Egg Shape Discovered from the Upper Cretaceous of Zhejiang Province, China Numerous dinosaur eggs and a clutch of turtle eggs have been recovered from the Tiantai Basin in Zhejiang Province of China. Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(IVPP), and Zhejiang Museum of Natural History described a new egg from the th...   32 Page(s)   FirstPrev1112131415NextFinal

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