May 27, 2025 by News Staff

The Gobi Wall is a 321-km-long structure made of earth, stone, and wood, located in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia. It is the least understood section...

May 26, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of eusauropod dinosaur has been identified from a fossilized partial skeleton with a nearly complete skull found in the Chinese...

May 21, 2025 by News Staff

Long dinosaur trackways provide valuable records of trackmaker behavior, yet their study is often hindered by logistical challenges in documentation and...

May 8, 2025 by News Staff

Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata — a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China’s Yunnan...

Apr 8, 2025 by News Staff

Deep soil — ranging from below 30 cm (12 inches) to hundreds of meters, depending on soil type and region — is a neglected ecosystem within...

Apr 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have unearthed a relatively complete skull and vertebrae that belonged to a previously unknown metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur...

Apr 1, 2025 by News Staff

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia....

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of the wukongopterid pterosaur genus Darwinopterus has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in western Liaoning, China. An...

Mar 12, 2025 by News Staff

Searching for land refugia becomes imperative for human survival during the hypothetical sixth mass extinction. Studying past comparable crises can offer...

Mar 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of extinct scorpion from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. Jeholia longchengi is the...

Feb 25, 2025 by News Staff

Using data gathered by China’s Zhurong rover, planetary researchers have identified hidden layers of rock under the Martian surface that strongly suggest...

Feb 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch. The...

Feb 19, 2025 by News Staff

Tropical riparian ecosystems — those found along rivers and wetlands — in what is now North China recovered within as little as 2 million years...

Feb 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of small-sized dinocephalosaurid archosauromorph from the fossilized skeleton found in the Chinese...

Feb 12, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two Jurassic bird species at a locality in Zhenghe county, Fujian province, southeast China. These...

Feb 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered a fragmentary skeleton of a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur in the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of southern...

Jan 27, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Named Prionailurus kurteni, the new cat species is the smallest known fossil member of the family Felidae to date. Prionailurus kurteni was as small as...

Jan 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine bird has been identified from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton preserved with traces...

Jan 15, 2025 by News Staff

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. How this apex predator gradually adapted...

Jan 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaurid dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized material found at Kangdailiang Mountain (1,262 m above sea level)...