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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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New Paleolithic Sites Discovered in Hanzhong Basin, Central China |
The catchment of Hanjiang River is regarded as one of the most important Paleolithic sites in central China. During 2009-2012, a scientific team led by Dr. WANG Shejiang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted surveys and discovered two new Pal... |
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