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New Amphicyonid Material Found from the Early Miocene of Central Nei Mongol |
| Straddling between Europe to the west and North America to the east, Asia has long been suspected to be either a source of certain Cenozoic mammals that, thus far, are only found in Europe and/or North America, or a “jumping board” to and from the continents of destination as they disperse. Temnocyonine and haploc... |
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Histological Analysis Reveals Ontogenetic Variation in Early Birds |
Most living birds characteristically grow rapidly and reach adult size within a year. Nevertheless, little is known about how such an advanced developmental strategy evolved despite many discoveries of early fossil birds. In a paper published online Feburary 3 in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Drs. WA... |
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New Basal Bird from China Reveals the Morphological Diversity in Early Birds |
Over the past three decades, representatives of all major Mesozoic bird groups have been reported from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China. A new species, Chongmingia zhengi, reported in the journal of Scientific Reports on 25 January 2016, sheds light on the early evolution of birds. Phyloge... |
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Paleolithic Bone Tools Found from South China |
The production of formal bone tools, defined as artefacts that were cut, carved, polished or otherwise modified to produce fully shaped points, awls, harpoons and wedges, appears relatively late in human history, and is only recorded at a handful of African sites prior to 45000 years ago. Early instances of bon... |
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The Altai Neanderthal Shows Gene Flow from Early Modern Humans |
Using several genetic analytical methods, an international research team has identified an interbreeding event between the Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred about 100,000 years ago, which is tens of thousands of years earlier than that is currently known. Dr. FU Qiaomei, from Institute of Vertebrate ... |
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Earliest-known Treeshrew Fossil Found in Yunnan, China |
Treeshrews are widely considered a “living model” of an ancestral primate, and have long been called“living fossils”. Actual fossils of treeshrews, however, are extremely rare. In a paper published 14 January in Scientific Reports (6), Drs. LI Qiang and NI Xijun, Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Pa... |
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New basal ornithuromorph bird found in China |
A new species of Early Cretaceous bird was reported on January 6th in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society by Min Wang, Zhonghe Zhou and Shuang Zhou from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. The new discovery provides new information regarding ... |
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New Enantiornithine Bird with an Aerodynamic Tail Found in China |
A new species of Mesozoic bird was published on December 31 in Current Biology by a collaboration of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, providing strong evidence that enantiornithines posses... |
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