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12 2009
Unearthed dinosaur fossils shed light on the evolutionary process
By TANG YUANKAI
RENOWNED EXPERTISE: Xu Xing, a famous paleobiologist, works at the dinosaur excavation site in Wucaiwan in China's Xinjiang...
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11 2009
By Huo Yan and Huang Feifei (chinadaily.com.cn)
A 110,000 year old incomplete human lower jaw bone was recently found in a cave in Mulan Moutain in the Jiangzhou district of Chongzuo city, in the Guangxi Zhuan...
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10 2009
Some 300 paleoanthropologists gathered in Beijing Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the first complete skull of Peking Man, the homo erectus that lived near Beijing 700,000 years ago...
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09 2009
Vol 460|27 August 2009 NATURE|Vol 460|27 August 2009
Chinese palaeontologists met government officials in Beijing last week to lobby for strict federal control of fossil specimens. The researchers are working ...
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10 2009By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: October 8, 2009
The “early bird” Archaeopteryx may not be a bird, after all.
The first fossil of the raven-size species was an immediate sensation when it was excavat...
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10 2009A chicken-size dinosaur sporting four wings may have glided through the skies some 155 million years ago, researchers say based on exceptionally well-preserved remains of the feathered beast.
The first specime...
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09 2009
BRISTOL, England — A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists’ understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers report. The lithe creature, which stood about 28 centimeter...
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09 2009Inspired by the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the Bookworm celebrate the importance of great ideas, and the role of science in shaping the way we view the world, and schedule a series of talks -"Evo...
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11 2009
00:01 03 November 2009 by Phil McKenna
The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa.
Jin Changzhu and colleagues...
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08 2009
Already 40,000 years ago people fed themselves to a large degree on fish.
The isotopic analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern humans in Asia, the 40,000 year old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave in the ...
