A group of scientists led by Dr Peng-fei Fan of the Dali University’s Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research in Yunnan has described a new...
A new study, led by Dr Vanessa Hull of the Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has revealed more details on...
According to a new study reported in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, millions of modern Asian men are descended from eleven dynastic leaders,...
A team of paleontologists from China and the United States has described two shrew-sized mammals that lived during the Jurassic period, between 165 and...
A team of paleontologists from Japan, China and Canada has described a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Upper Jurassic...
A well-preserved fossil from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China, represents the oldest record of post-natal parental care, according...
Paleontologists led by Dr Xiao-hong Chen of the China Geological Survey’s Wuhan Center have discovered a new species of marine reptile that lived in...
An international group of entomologists led by Dr Marco Bologna from the University Roma Tre, Italy, has described a new species in the beetle genus Hycleus.
Hycleus...
A multinational team of paleontologists headed by Dr Thomas Harvey from the University of Leicester, UK, has described a strange balloon-shaped animal...
Paleontologists led by Prof Ryosuke Motani of the University of California, Davis, have discovered an amphibious ichthyosaur that lived in the seas of...
Pre-Cambrian microfossils discovered in rocks in southern China hint that complex multicellular life may have appeared as early as 600 million years ago.
This...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of flying reptile that lived in what is now China during the Cretaceous period, about...
A group of paleontologists led by Dr Jin Meng of American Museum of Natural History has discovered three squirrel-like mammals that lived in what is now...
A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and South Africa has described a new species of a feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now...
Mycologists at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have identified three new species of mushrooms contained within a commercial packet of dried Chinese porcini...
The former NBA star Yao Ming has teamed up with non-profit organization Sea Turtles 911 and Hainan Normal University to save Green turtles (Chelonia mydas).
Yao...