09
05 2016
By Will DunhamReuters May 6, 2016
The left lower jaw of Yunnanadapis folivorus, one of six new fossil primate species found in southern China, is pictured in this undated handout photo. Xijun Ni/Chinese Academ...
04
05 2016
Interspecies sex between ancient humans and Neanderthals – a relative of our ancestors who had smaller figure and low, flat, elongated skulls like dwarfs in the in The Lord of the Rings – had given 1.6 to 1.8 pe...
09
11 2015
A teeny-tiny fossilized bird skeleton is helping researchers understand the explosive rate at which birds diversified after the dinosaur age, new research shows.
The newfound skeleton dates back to about 62.5 ...
09
11 2015
The discovery of a number of fossils at a site in northwestern China was a closely guarded secret for nearly 10 years. Now, the ancient relicts are set to go on display, as Cheng Yingqi reports from Hami prefectur...
03
07 2015
Xu Xing relishes a bilingual book on the evolution of vertebrate life in his fabulously fossil-rich country.From Fish to Human: The March of Vertebrate Life in China
Corwin Sullivan, Wang Yuan and Brian Choo P...
07
05 2015
By Michael Balter
Put yourself on the planet 130 million years ago. Most of the animals, from horned dinosaurs to swimming, predatory plesiosaurs, would be deeply alien, not to say terrifying. But rising from ...
04
05 2015
By Will Dunham, Reuters WASHINGTON - Scientists in China on Wednesday described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the fir...
04
05 2015
A newly described tiny creature has forelimb bones thought to support aerofoil membranes May 1, 2015 |By Sid Perkins and Nature magazine
A small, feathered dinosaur that probably sported bat-like wing membrane...
11
06 2014
This image depicts ecological reconstructions of Hamipterus. Credit: Chuang Zhao
Researchers have discovered the first three-dimensionally preserved pterosaur eggs in China. The eggs were found among doze...
11
06 2014
By By Will Dunham June 5, 2014 12:23 PM
An artist rendition depicts ecological reconstructions of Hamipterus, the flying reptiles that lived …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spectacular fossil find in Chin...
