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07 2019
BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have made new discoveries about the origin of Sumatran striped rabbits from a 6.2 million-year-old fossil, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Sumatran ...
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07 2019
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have identified a new species of lizard from a fossil specimen of a Microraptor, a flying dinosaur living in the early Cretaceous period.
Microraptor is one of t...
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05 2019
Homo sapiens may have had a variety of routes to choose from while dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene Epoch, according to a study released May 29, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Feng L...
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05 2019
HEFEI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese paleontologists have discovered more than 30 ancient human fossils that dated back to about 300,000 years, at an excavation site in Dongzhi County in east China's Anhui Province.
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05 2019
By ZHANG ZHIHAO | China DailyUpdated: May 10, 2019 The cover of the journal Nature on Thursday. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Chinese scientists have discovered an "extremely rare" and "fantastical" Jurassic...
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05 2019Xinhua May 09 , 2019
Artistic illustration of a bizarre dinosaur with membranous wings discovered by Chinese scientists (Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chines...
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04 2019
Together with their Chinese colleagues, Senckenberg scientists studied the feeding habits of the Asian elephant and its extinct relative, the stegodon, during the Pleistocene. They reached the conclusion that the ...
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04 2019
FOUR TEETH FOUND in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads.
In 1972 and 1983, researchers extracted the roughly 200,000-year-old teeth from the silty sediments of ...
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03 2019
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A group of scientists have discovered a fossil bird dating back about 110 million years, which is the first ever found to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen.
The fossil represents ...
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03 2019
BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Fish fossils, dating back about 425 million years ago, are providing insights into the evolution of scales on bony fishes.
Diversified scales are one of the most obvious exterior ...
