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...
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 ...
[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...
Chinese 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...
Strengthening capabilities in fields seen as key to making big sci-tech advances
Chinese scientists are deeply encouraged by President Xi Jinping's call to enhance basic research and be self-reliant in critica...
Wang Xiujie and Fu Qiaomei, both from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), are encouraged by the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as they have actively implemented the ...
Chinese paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new marine reptile species, dating back 244 million years, in Luoping County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The study was published in the journal Scien...
A collection of well-preserved fish fossils were unearthed in two newly discovered fossil beds from the early Silurian Period - around 439 to 436 million years ago - in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality and...
A Chinese research team has reported new findings on the evolution of the giant panda's false thumb, suggesting the giant panda was already a dedicated bamboo feeder over 6 million years ago.
The study, conduc...
This undated photo shows the fossil specimen and sketch of Honghesaurus, a new species of marine reptiles known as a pachypleurosaur. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Handout via Xinhua)
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -...