A pale-yellow fungus up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, growing from the roots of dying trees in China’s Yunnan province, belongs to a lineage that may have...
Paleontologists have described what they say is the first fully marine species of a stem amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus, based on two nearly complete...
People who drink tea regularly appear less likely to develop heart and vascular disease than people who don’t, according to a new study published today...
A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was not a burrowing worm; it was...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early bird from the Late Jurassic Zhenghe Fauna of southeastern China. The bird was flightless,...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of polybranchiaspiform galeaspid fish from the Early Devonian of Yunnan, China.
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Megacauda sungei, a furry, otter-size mammaliaform that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, some 165 million years ago, was semiaquatic, swimming...
The oldest undisputed animal fossils, from the Ediacaran biota, are about 574 million years old, but chemical traces left by sponges, known as lipid biomarkers,...
Dongoconodon platycauda, a small eutriconodontan mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs in what is now northeastern China paddled through the water with...
Norellraptor barsboldi, a new species of small microraptorine dinosaur from the 120-million-year-old rock beds of China’s Liaoning province, challenges...
A new species of deltatheroidan mammal from China may be the oldest confirmed ancestor of marsupials yet found, offering fresh evidence that Asia played...
A tubular marine creature that lived on the seafloor more than 540 million years ago may have survived in toxic, sulfur-rich waters by teaming up with...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based on a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China. Named Kayrasaurus...
Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known range of the elusive human...
Scientists have identified the first dinosaur fossil from a remote western section of the Bayan Gobi Formation in China’s Inner Mongolia, extending the...
Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized...
A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly...
Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the...
More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first wondered whether certain sticky-leaved Saxifraga plants might be secretly carnivorous, Kunming Institute...
Paleontologists working in southern China have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur that appears to belong to a group never before documented...
