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New Study Reveals Boluochia is Closely Related to Longipteryx |
| Very little was known about Mesozoic birds until nearly complete skeletons began to be discovered in the now famous Jehol Group deposits of northeastern China. The first few specimens to be found were partial skeletons, most preserving only the voids of the bones. Over the past two decades, new specimens have contin... |
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IVPP Scientists Reveal the skull of Extinct Birds |
| Birds are the most diverse clade on the planet, and the skull of the living bird is one of the most highly modified and morphologically variable regions of their skeleton. The large diversity of enantiornithine birds (a group closely related to the lineage that includes living birds) uncovered from Cretaceous age de... |
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The First Single-fingered Dinosaur Found in Inner Mongolia, China |
A new species of dinosaur the size of a parrot and with only one finger has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China.
Scientists named the new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus, after Linhe, a nearby city in Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China. The work is published online today in Proceedings of the Natio... |
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New Long-tailed Pterosaurs Found in Western Liaoning, China |
| Dr. Wang Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, described two new long-tailed pterosaurs, Kunpengopterus sinensis gen. et sp. nov. and Darwinopterus linglongtaensis sp. nov., from the Jehol Biota deposits in Linglongta, Jianchang Count... |
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Advances of cranial morphology of Silurian sarcopterygian Guiyu oneiros |
| Drs Qiao Tuo and Zhu Min, from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently described cranial morphology features of the stem-group sarcopterygian Guiyu oneiros including the dermal bone pattern and anatomical details of the ethmosphenoid, as reported in the late... |
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Advances on technics and activities of the upper Palaeolithic people |
Drs Li Chaorong, Feng Xingwu and Li Hao, Instutute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported their study on technics and activities of the upper Palaeolithic people (Oriental Plaza site of Wangfujing, Peking, China) in Issue 5,Volume 114 of L'anthropologie .
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A Partial Macaque Skeleton (Mammalia, Primates) Found in Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China |
| Drs. ZHANG Ying-Qi and JIN Chang-Zhu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently described a partial macaque skeleton (Mammalia, Primates) from Queque Cave, Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (22°16′22″N, 107°30′22″E), as r... |
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