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Location: Home > Research > Research Progress     Research Progress 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... Oxygen Isotope Indicats Cold Climate for Dinosaurs of the Jehol Fauna in Northeast China As dinosaurs did not always enjoy mild climates, it has long been thought that the climate of the Mesozoic, the age of the dinosaurs, was generally warm across the planet. However, a recent study challenges this theory. 　　Dr. Romain Amiot, a French postdoc fellow who worked with Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe at Institute of Ve... Early Eocene perissodactyls (mammalia) from the Upper Nomogen Formation of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China Dr. Wang Yuanqing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, recently described a new specie of the lophialetid tapiroid, Minchenoletes erlianensis gen. et sp. nov., and the hyracodontid rhinocerotoid Pataecops parvus, from the upper part of the N... Sino-American Expedition Produced a New Coelurosaurian Theropod in Xinjiang, China The Sino-American field expedition in the Shishugou Formation at the Wucaiwan locality in the Junggar Basin north of the Tian Shan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, led by Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a number of dinosaur fossils... 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... 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... 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... 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 . 　　More tha... 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... Human remains from China indicate modern human emerged much earlier than previously thought in East Asia 　　Fig. 1. The human remains from Zhiren Cave. The Zhiren 3 mandible in anterior (A), lateral left (B), and superior (C) views. The midsymphyseal cross-section of the Zhiren 3 mandible (D). The Zhiren 1M3 in buccal and mesial views (E), and the Zhiren 2 M3 in the same views (F). (Scale bar, 5 cm.) (Courtesy of Drs...   32 Page(s)   FirstPrev2627282930NextFinal

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