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06 2018
A young giant panda eats bamboo in the Chengdu Research Base of the Giant Panda Breeding Center in China.
Photograph by Jak Wonderly, National Geographic Creative
In August 2014, paleoanthropologist Yingqi...
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05 2018
We may not see elephants roaming the prairies or forests today, if their distant ancestors had not learned to graze on grass about 16 million years ago. Their active adaption to the environment helped the species ...
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05 2018
Phytoliths of grass and foliage found adhered to a molar of Gomphotherium connexum (bottom-right) from the Miocene deposits of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. The bar chart from the bottom-left indicate relative a...
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05 2018
Leading researcher Fu Qiaomei has made big contributions to genetic analysis of prehistoric humans.
The science of studying the roots of modern people via DNA extracted from the bones of ancient humans - peopl...
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12 2017
A spectacular fossil find is providing tantalizing new clues about the habits of pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles that lived at the same times as dinosaurs. The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bon...
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10 2017
Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey day of dinosaurs, according to a specimen from China.
Features such as fused bones were thought to be present o...
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10 2017
The evolutionary story we have written to explain our ancestors’ move from sea to land may need a rethink. A fossil fish from this era has been discovered with several of the features of land animals – yet it wa...
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09 2016
"Stunning" find shows that Homo sapiens reached Asia around 100,000 years ago
By Ewen Callaway, Nature magazine
These 47 human teeth, dated to 80,000-120,000 years ago, were found in a limestone cave syste...
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06 2017CHANGCHUN, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of a complete crocodile and bones belonging to at least six different dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, 145 to 66 million years ago, have been excavated in northeast China...
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07 2016
Fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about the evolution of modern humans and our closest relatives.
12 July 2016
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The reconstructed skull of Peking Man, the fossil that launched...
