In new research, paleontologists analyzed abundances of sunscreen-like chemicals in 800 fossil pollen grains from 250-million-year-old rocks in Tibet.
The...
Cratonavis zhui, a new species of pygostylian bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China, had a unique combination of a dinosaurian skull with...
A new genus and species of fossil lizard has been described from two fossilized specimens found in eastern Inner Mongolia, China.
Close-up of the holotype...
Bush robins are members of the genus Tarsiger, a group of small, colorful birds with high species richness in the Sino-Himalayan region.
The Qilian bluetail...
Most birds today can lift the upper beak independently of the brain case, enabled by a series of mobile joints and bending zones in the skull. The computed...
A new species of confuciusornithid bird being named Confuciusornis shifan has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China.
Life...
Paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of a small mammal foot preserved inside the body cavity of the holotype specimen of Microraptor zhaoianus,...
A new genus and species of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur with an unusual tail has been identified from a partial skeleton found in northeastern China.
An...
Scientists have described a new species of the snake genus Gonyosoma from Hainan Island, China.
The Hainan rhinoceros snake (Gonyosoma hainanense). Image...
More than 120 million years ago in what is now China, a hungry dromaeosaurid dinosaur ate a small frog.
Daurlong wangi holotype: (a) whole specimen, (b)...
Yuzhoulong qurenensis is one of the earliest-diverging members of the sauropod dinosaur clade Macronaria.
Life reconstruction of a macronarian dinosaur....
Paleontologists have examined the 514-million-year-old specimens of Gangtoucunia aspera, a tube-building marine animal from the Guanshan Lagerstätte of...
Biologists have described a new species of the genus Saussurea from the Khunjerab pass border area between China and Pakistan.
Living plants of Saussurea...
New research led by the global research-for-development organization Bioversity International confirms that the genomes of today’s domesticated banana...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized remains of Tujiaaspis vividus, a species of galeaspid that lived 436 million years ago (Silurian period) in...
Wufengella bengtsoni, an extinct species of tommotiid worm that lived during the Cambrian period, resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living...
Protocodium sinense is the first and oldest green alga species from the Ediacaran period (635-539 million years ago) to be preserved in three dimensions,...
Marine biologists have described a new species of the genus Callistoctopus from the waters of southeast China.
Callistoctopus xiaohongxu, live specimen....
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized remains of Yuanmoupithecus xiaoyuan, a small Old World monkey species that lived in China during the Late...
