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The Incredible Daohugou Biota Reveals the Jurassic Life of Northeast Asia |
| A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (2) described 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs, five dinosaurs, and four mammals from the so-called Daohugou Biota, a fossil assemblage newly named after a village near one of the major localities in I... |
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Oldest Pterodactyloid Species Discovered in Northwest China |
| The pterodactyloid is a group of short-tailed pterosaurs with elongate-metacarpus that appeared in the middle Late Jurassic and quickly became the most diverse pterosaur group, replacing all others. A Sino-American expedition team lead by Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)... |
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New Specimens of Yanornis Indicate a Digestive System of Living Birds |
| In a recent paper describing ten new specimens of Yanornis martini identified by the director of the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Natural History Mr. Xiaoting Zheng, an international team of scientists lead by Dr. Jingmai O’Connor of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Acade... |
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Bizarre Bovid Species Found from the Late Miocene of Linxia Basin, China |
| Numerous Neogene mammal fossils have been excavated in Hezheng area, Gansu province since the 1970s. Two fossil skulls of a bizarre bovid were discovered in recent years. In an article published in the journal of Science China (Earth Sciences) 57 (2), Dr. SHI Qinqin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoant... |
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Large Anseriform Fossils Found From the Late Eocene of Xinjiang, China |
| The fossil record of anseriforms in the Paleogene of the Northern Hemisphere is somewhat limited in terms of its overall diversity. Much of that early Cenozoic record is of the extinct Presbyornithidae, known from the Middle Paleocene through the Middle Eocene. Drs. Thomas A. Stidham and NI Xi-Jun, Institute of Vert... |
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New Analyses Verify the Use of Fire by Peking Man |
| Zhoukoudian Locality 1 in northern China has been widely known for the discovery of the Middle Pleistocene human ancestor Homo erectus pekinensis ( known as Peking Man ) since the 1920s. By 1931, the suggestion that the Zhoukoudian hominins could use and control fire had become widely accepted. However, some analyse... |
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First Enantiornithine Bird Found From the Upper Cretaceous of Southern China |
| Most known Enantiornithes from China are from the Jehol Group (131–120 million years ago), which has yielded numerous and exquisitely preserved Lower Cretaceous birds, and all known Enantiornithes are restricted to northern China. In an article published in the latest issue of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(... |
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Cat Domestication Traced to Chinese Farmers 5,300 Years Ago |
| Domestic cats are one of the most popular pets worldwide, but little is known about their domestication. In a study published December 16, 2013 in PNAS, Dr. HU Yaowu, Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropol... |
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