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Location: Home > Research > Research Progress     Research Progress Exploring Dental Enamel Thickness of Giant Ape by using High-resolution CT Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known species of primate, lived mainly in South China during the Pleistocene. The enormous body size of this taxon, together with its special dietary proclivity and possible relationship with hominins arouse great interest among paleoanthropologists. The dental enamel thickness of... 40,000-year-old Early Modern Human Discovered Outside Beijing Find Helps Scientists Map Waves of Migration Across the Continents 　　Kevin Holden Last Modified: 25 Jul 2013 11:20 　　Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology extracted DNA from the Tianyuan early modern human and compared it with genetic profiles of people living around the w... New Study Provides the Discussion of Evolutionary Trends of Eurasian “Shovel-tusked” Elephants Platybelodon is a group of extinct Proboscidea with an elongated and flattened mandibular symphysis, known as “Shovel-tusked” elephant. They extended from the early Miocene to middle Miocene of Eurasia, and some of them reached North America in the late Miocene. During recent 20 years, researchers from Institute o... Tracing the Evolution of Avian Wing Digits It is widely accepted that birds are a subgroup of dinosaurs, but there is an apparent conflict: modern birds have been thought to possess only the middle three fingers (digits II-III-IV) of an idealized five-digit tetrapod hand based on embryological data, but their Mesozoic tetanuran dinosaur ancestors are conside... Study Shows ‘Parrot Dinosaur’ Switching from Four Feet to Two as It Grew Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how one of the best-known dinosaurs switched from four feet to two as it grew. 　　Psittacosaurus, the ‘parro... A New Species of the Hornless Rhino Found From the Late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand In the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, several sand pits previously have yielded fossils. The area is 220 km northeast of Bangkok, and the sand pits are located next to the Mun River. The sedimentary sequence of these sand pits consists of unconsolidated mudstone, sandstone, and conglomerate, d... Earliest Known Microtoid Cricetid Found From the Junggar Basin of China Microtoid cricetids are widely considered to be the ancestral form of arvicoline rodents, a successful rodent group including voles, lemmings and muskrats. The earliest previously known microtoid cricetid is Microtocricetus molassicus Fahlbusch and Mayr 1975 from the Late Miocene (MN9, about 10-11 million years ago)... New advance on Platybelodon from the Linxia Basin of China Platybelodon is a group of extinct Proboscidea. They extended from the early Miocene to middle Miocene of Eurasia. Evident also shows that some of them reached North America in the late Miocene. These strange animals were first reported by Borissiak in 1927 from the middle Miocene of the Kuban Region, Caucasus Area.... First Known Monodactyl Dinosaur Adding Knowledge to the Evolution and Biogeography of Alvarezsauroids The alvarezsauroid theropod Linhenykus monodactylus from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China is the first known monodactyl non−avian dinosaur, providing important information on the complex patterns of manual evolution seen in alvarezsauroids. In a paper published in the journal of Acta Palaeontologica Po... Scientists Reveal the Braincase Anatomy of the Late Cretaceous Tyrannosaurid Alioramus The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known from a single specimen whose articulated braincase exhibits a nearly unique combination of preservational quality, subadult stage of growth, and morphological complexity. An international team, including Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...   32 Page(s)   FirstPrev1617181920NextFinal

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