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The Largest Known Muntiacine Found in China |
Dr. HOU Sukuan from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new species of muntiacine Euprox in the journal of Zootaxa 3911 (1) recently. The new species, Euprox grandis sp. nov., is established based on a skull and a pair of antlers from th... |
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Middle Triassic Fossils Reveal How Flying Fish Started to Glide |
Modern flying fish are remarkable for leaping from the water to glide in the air using long, winglike fins, presumably to escape aquatic predators. This extraordinary gliding strategy, unlike those in terrestrial gliders, is energetically very expensive and has otherwise been hypothesized to occur only in a sin... |
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First Known Skull of the Muntjak Eostyloceros Found in China |
| Dr. DENG Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported a new species of the muntjak Eostyloceros in the journal of Zootaxa 3893 (3) recently. The new species, Eostyloceros hezhengensis sp. nov., is established based on a skull with it... |
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Extraordinary Fossil Reveals the Origin of Mating by Copulation |
A profound new discovery announced October 19 in Nature by an international team led by world-renowned palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.
In one of the biggest discoveries in the evolutionary hi... |
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First Asian Coelophysoid Dinosaur Discovered in Lufeng, Yunnan, China |
| Coelophysoid dinosaurs represent the earliest major radiation of neotheropods. These small-to-medium-sized agile bipeds lived throughout much of Pangaea during the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic. However, despite the well-documented discoveries of coelophysoids in North America and Africa, the coelophysoid material t... |
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New progress of the Neogene Suidae research |
| Dr. HOU Sukuan and Prof. DENG Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new species of Chleuastochoerus from the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, China, and discussed the systematic position of the genus. Their latest research result was pu... |
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New Pterosaur Resembling 'Avatar' creature found in Northeastern China |
| Dr. WANG Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP), and his international team describe a new genus and species of toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur, Ikrandraco avatar, based on two laterally flattened specimens from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiu... |
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