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Location: Home > Research > Research Progress     Research Progress 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... New Enantiornithine Bird with Scansorial Adaptations Discovered From the Lower Cretaceous of China Enantiornithes, an extinct group of primitive birds, were the most abundant and diverse avialans of the Mesozoic. The abundance of enantiornithine fossils, and in particular the well-preserved nearly complete skeletons known from the Lower Cretaceous of China, has made it possible for researchers to address question... 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... Tooth-picking Behavior Identified in the Middle Pleistocene Hominins of Eastern China Interproximal grooves have been identified on a variety of Pleistocene Homo taxa from different sites across the Old World. A diversity of hypotheses has been proposed to explain these interproximal grooves, ranging from oral hygiene to alleviating pain due to periodontal disease. The most popular explanation appear... New Palaeolithic Artefacts Discovered from Loess Deposits of Lantian, Central China The Bahe River valley of central China is regarded as one of the most important hominin sites from the late early Pleistocene to the middle Pleistocene. Homo erectus fossils were unearthed at the Gongwangling and Chenjiawo localities, and more than 30 Palaeolithic open-air sites were investigated in the 1960s in thi... 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)... 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... 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... 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... 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...   32 Page(s)   FirstPrev1112131415NextFinal

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