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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.
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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...
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05 2023
Chinese scientists have found the fossil of ichthyosaurs, a species of large extinct marine reptiles which first appeared around 250 million years ago, in the Himalayas region. It's the second time for Chines...
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05 2023
NANCHANG, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of Jiangxialepis jiujiangensis, a new species of Shuyuidae, in Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province.
Morphological and taxonomic ...
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05 2023
[Image: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences]
Researchers have discovered a new fossilized galeaspid species with "nine tails" in South China's Guangxi Zhuang...
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05 2023Chinese paleoanthropologists have found that ancient humans living across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the past over 5,000 years share a single origin, deriving from a northern East Asian population that admix...
