An international group of paleontologists has described an aquatic larva of a prehistoric fly that lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, about 165...
The exciting discovery of an extinct species of Tibetan fox adds more credence to the out-of-Tibet hypothesis, in which the Tibetan Plateau served as a...
A newly discovered fossil fish named Megamastax amblyodus is the largest vertebrate known in the Silurian fossil record, says a group of paleontologists...
Paleontologists have discovered remains of about 40 male and female individuals of a new pterosaur species with five exceptionally well-preserved 3D eggs...
Sometimes, studying past technologies leads to remarkable discoveries that can help design better materials for the future. This is the little known science...
U.S. and Chinese paleontologists say they have unearthed the fossils of what is the oldest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur. This creature lived...
A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs,...
A new study on the skulls of Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) and Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), published in the journal Biology Letters, offers explanation...
Paleontologists from China, the United States and United Kingdom have discovered a 3-inch-long fossil of a prehistoric shrimp-like animal with the earliest...
Paleontologists led by Dr Maomin Wang from Capital Normal University in China say the newly discovered stick insect Cretophasmomima melanogramma may have...
Paleontologists led by Dr Xiao-Chun Wu from Canadian Museum of Nature say they have discovered a new genus and species of reptile that lived in what is...
A team of paleontologists led by Dr Guan-bao Chen of Anhui Geological Museum, China, says a newly discovered fossil of a Mesozoic ichthyosaur reveals the...
A new study published online in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on high-altitude adaptations in modern Tibetans. Also, it suggests that Tibetans...
Paleontologists from the United States and China have described a new large plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now northwestern China during the...
Paleontologists from the National Museums Scotland, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology...
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of cursorial hyena that lived in what is now Tibetan Plateau during the middle...
Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...
A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides possible evidence of domesticated cats between 5,560 and 5,280...
A team of entomologists from Italy and China has described nine new species of wasps in the genus Cleptes.
Cleptes helanshanus. Image credit: Zai-fu Xu.
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