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.
This...
A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications provides the first multi-disciplinary evidence that humans in what is now China first domesticated...
A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua, at the Daohugou village...
A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 6.1-million-year-old relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved fossil of a proto-mammal, named Megaconus mammaliaformis, that lived in what is...
The International Mineralogical Association has officially approved qingsongite as the name for a new mineral, cubic boron nitride.
Qingsongite is a recently...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved skeleton of a new tiny, tree-dwelling primate named Archicebus achilles that lived...
A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...
According to a new research reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE, ancient people on the southern coast of China about 4,500-5,300 years ago relied...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China.
Skull of Aorun...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date, and discovered organic material...
100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers.
Carnivorous two-legged...
Chinese paleontologists led by Dr Tao He from the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou have identified a new species of thalattosaur from a fossil...
