[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 Z...
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 ...
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 cr...
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...
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 ...
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 Municipalit...
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, c...
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 (Xinh...
The well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl is shown in a new study. (Provided by the researchers)
Paleontologists have discovered the amazingly well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl t...
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A study showed that the ancient relatives of modern humans in northern China may have had an "Einstein's brain" at the time they lived 200,000 to 160,000 years ago.
An interna...