Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences

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  • Chinese Fossil Shows Modern Bird Skull Evolved from a Mixture of Dinosaur and Bird Features
    Chinese Fossil Shows Modern Bird Skull Evolved from a Mixture of Dinosaur and Bird Features
    Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP) in Beijing and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have revealed that birds retained key dinosaurian traits far into their evolution many millions of years after the split between dinosaurs and birds.
    READ MORE >> Dec 07, 2022
  • Ancient 'Shark' from China Is Humans' Oldest Jawed Ancestor Palaeontologists discover a 439-million-year-old 'shark' that forces us to rethink the timeline of vertebrate evolution
    Ancient 'Shark' from China Is Humans' Oldest Jawed Ancestor Palaeontologists discover a 439-million-year-old 'shark' that forces us to rethink the timeline of vertebrate evolution
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022
  • Rare Fossil Teeth from China Overturn Long-held Views about Evolution of Vertebrates
    Rare Fossil Teeth from China Overturn Long-held Views about Evolution of Vertebrates
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022
  • Fish Fossils Breathe New Life into Fin and Limb Evolutionary Hypothesis
    Fish Fossils Breathe New Life into Fin and Limb Evolutionary Hypothesis
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022
  • Dawn of Fishes—Early Silurian Jawed Vertebrates Revealed Head to Tail
    Dawn of Fishes—Early Silurian Jawed Vertebrates Revealed Head to Tail
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022
  • The Rise of Fishes illuminated by discovery of fossil
    The Rise of Fishes illuminated by discovery of fossil "treasure hoard"Five early Silurian fishes from China rewrite the evolutionary story of "from fish to human"
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022