Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Progress
  • Genomic Study of Ancient Humans Sheds Light on Human Evolution on the Tibetan Plateau
    READ MORE >> Mar 18, 2023
  • Assessment of contaminants associated with gold-standard ancient DNA protocols
    READ MORE >> Jan 09, 2023
  • Bizarre Cretaceous Bird from China Shows Evolutionarily Decoupled Skull and Body
    READ MORE >> Jan 03, 2023
  • 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
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022
  • Rare Fossil Teeth from China Overturn Long-held Views about Evolution of Vertebrates
    READ MORE >> Sep 28, 2022