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Are dinosaurs the real ancestors of birds? What was the evolution process like? Those questions are the most controversial topics in the field of evolutionary biology. Chinese Academy of Sciences` Institute of Ver...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 By Jeanna Bryner
Bird wings clearly share ancestry with dinosaur "hands" or forelimbs. A school kid can see it in the bones. But paleontologists have long struggled to explain the so-...
In Memory of Prof. Dr. Minchen Chow (Zhou Mingzhen)
JUNE 15-21, 2009, BEIJING, CHINA
ABSTRACTS AND GUIDEBOOK
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChinese Academy of Sciences, Beiji...
Title: When old sharks meet new technologyBy: Dr. John Maisey Curator and Axelrod Research Chair, Division of Paleontology, AMNHWhen: Friday, June 05, 2009, 10:00 AMWhere: The Confer...
International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of
the 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man and
the First Conference on Quaternary Research of Asia
Beijing, ...
Reporters learned from Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that a miniature bird carving that had been carved from a deer antler about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. Other carvings and semi-...
In trying to make evolutionary sense of the bony fish (and, by extension, land vertebrates) scientists have been hampered by a lack of completeness. Most of the earliest fossils of bony fish, dating to the Siluria...
Michael I. Coates
Discovery of an unusually intact and ancient fossil fish provides further evidence that the search for modern vertebrate origins requires breaking out of the Devonian and into the preceding p...
BEIJING -- Chinese scientists` discovery of an intact and ancient fish fossil might bring the search for modern vertebrate origins out of the Devonian age (416 to 359 million years ago) and into the preceding peri...