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Location: Home > Research > Research Progress     Research Progress Tracing Large Tetrapod Burrows From the Permian of Nei Mongol, China Pre-Cenozoic terrestrial tetrapod burrows have been found in North America, Antarctica, Morocco, and Poland. These burrows are identified as the production of dicynodonts, cynodonts, therocephalians, therapsid or mammals, procolophon, archosaurs or turtles, although only some of them are based on direct evidence. Dr... Exploring Sexual Dimorphism in Large-sized Long-snout Ichthyosaurs A large number of large-sized long-snout ichthyosaur skeletons have been excavated from Guanling, Guizhou and adjacent areas since 2000. Totally 14 specimens had been described and reported often as different genera and species. Recently, based on the similarity of the cranial morphology, all of these specimens were... New Species of Eggysodontid Found From the Paleogene of the Guangnan Basin, Yunnan, China Eggysodontid is a group of extinct rhinocerotoid animals of odd-toed ungulate. Rhinocerotoid fossils are relatively abundant in Paleogene deposits in South China. Many previous studies have investigated Paleogene rhinocerotoids from Yunnan Province. In an article published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiati... Ischyromyid Rodents Found from the Eocene of Erlian Basin in Nei Mongol The ischyromyids are the most primitive rodents that have a Holarctic Paleogene distribution. Members of the family are predominant in Paleogene rodents of North America, but are relatively rare in both Asia and Europe. In a study published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(4), Drs. LI Qian and MENG J... New Protorosaur Found From the Middle Triassic of Southern China Protorosaur was a diverse marine reptile group characterized by long necks and elongated neck vertebrae bearing cervical ribs that extend across at least two intervertebral joints. The constitution of the protorosaurs is very unclear. In a study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5), paleontologi... New Cursorial Hyena Found From the Late Cenozoic Zanda Basin of Tibetan Plateau During the 2009 field season, an international team led by Dr. LI Qiang, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered skull fragments of a fossil hyaenid from a gully off the northern trail of Zandagou in the late Cenozoic Zanda Basin in southwestern Tibe... New Pantherine Fossils Found From the Zanda Basin of the Tibetan Himalaya Pantherine felids, known as “big cats”, include the largest living cats, apex predators in their respective ecosystems. Although the oldest pantherine fossils occur in Africa, molecular phylogenies point to Asia as their region of origin. There was a division between the DNA data and the fossil record, mainly beca... New Piscivorous Bird was Found from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China The Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group in northeastern China has yielded the world’s greatest wealth of exceptionally well-preserved early birds. More than 30 bird taxa have been reported from the Jehol Group – approximately one-third of the known global diversity of Mesozoic birds. In a study published online August 28... Early Cretaceous Bird With Unique “Two-tail” Plumage Found in China A bird that lived 125 million years ago in what is today Western Liaoning of Northeast China had a unique “two-tail” plumage, according to a study published October 07 in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new specimens indicate a previously unrecognized degree of diversi... Exceptionally-preserved Fossil Fish From China Reveals the Evolution of Early Jawed Vertebrates The evolution of jaws is one of the key episodes in the evolution of vertebrates, but the gap between jawed and jawless vertebrates is so large that it is hard to work out the individual evolutionary steps in the transition. An international team led by Dr. ZHU Min, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanth...   32 Page(s)   FirstPrev1112131415NextFinal

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