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02 2024A multidisciplinary study of the Shiyu archaeological site in northern China reveals a complex human behavioural record that currently is the oldest of its kind in Northeast Asia and provides insight into the natu...
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01 2024
Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape that ever lived, and might have gone extinct because it could not adapt when its environment changed.Credit: Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)
The worl...
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12 2023
Rock paintings in red ocher are seen inside the cave in September. [Photo/China Daily]
A landmark archaeological discovery in the Xizang autonomous region has offered scientific evidence that humans inhabited ...
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12 2023
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- A new study shows that the middle ear structure of modern mammals began to evolve as early as the Cretaceous period.
The mammalian middle ear is a classic example of progressive evo...
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12 2023
Finite element analyses of feeding behaviors among three longirostrine gomphothere families and reconstruction of their feeding ecology. Credit: eLife (2023). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.90908.1
Researchers have provid...
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11 2023
Photo: Courtesy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Living jawless fish, especially lampreys, have become a highly studied animal group for evolution...
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11 2023Lampreys have been feeding on flesh and blood since the depths of prehistory. These jawless, eel-like creatures have suctioning discs lined with teeth for mouths, which many modern species use to latch on to prey ...
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11 2023Under the water on an Earth ruled by dinosaurs, an eerie-looking fish senses its prey. A sudden dart, and it latches onto its victim with a powerful toothed sucker and feasts on its flesh.
This is the picture ...
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06 2023
Fu Qiaomei prepares samples for the automated workstation. Photo: Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Who are we? Where do we come from?...
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06 2023Chinese scientist Fu Qiaomei was awarded a UNESCO prize in Paris, France on Monday for her original work on establishing the genetic history of early humans on the Eurasian continent through the study of ancient g...
