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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Ewen Callaway 04 December 2013
Location of the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (yellow) as well as Late Pleistocene sites that have yielded Neanderthal DNA (red) and Denisovan DNA (blue).
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Primitive vertebrate's sophisticated mandible rewrites evolutionary tree.
Eliot Barford 25 September 2013
The newly described armoured fish showed in this reconstruction lived 419 million years ago but al...
Finding Entelognathus is a revelation comparable to the discovery of Archaeopteryx. Brian Choo
A spectacular new “missing link” fossil has been unearthed in China. The 419 million year old armoured fish...