Gansuyaena megalotis, a small-bodied hyaenid that lived in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu between 15 and 12 million years ago (Miocene epoch),...
In egg-laying amniotes (reptiles, birds and monotremes), the developing embryo is tethered to a number of the extraembryonic membranes that deliver oxygen...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of giraffoid that lived in northern China during the Early Miocene epoch some 17 million years ago. Named...
In light of significant efforts being taken toward manned deep space exploration, it is of high technological importance and scientific interest to develop...
A new genus and species of thyreophoran dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch has been identified from a partial skeleton with cranial and...
A steppe-dwelling rodent species called the Brandt’s vole (Lasiopodomys brandtii) actively modifies habitat structure by cutting down a large, unpalatable...
Bashanosaurus primitivus is the earliest record of Stegosauria in Asia and represents one of the earliest records of this dinosaur group from anywhere...
Erratus sperare, a new species of ancient marine arthropod from eastern Yunnan, China, had unique trunk appendages that represent an intermediate stage...
An international team of scientists from the United States, China, Singapore, France and Canada has decoded the genome of the lychee (Litchi chinensis),...
Scientists have described a huge new species of the genus Begonia from southern Tibet, China.
Habitat and large-sized plant of Begonia giganticaulis: (A)...
A new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur has been identified from a fossilized bone found in China almost 30 years ago.
Life restoration of Mamenchisaurus...
The fossilized dinosaur egg from the Hekou Formation, Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, southern China, is elongate ovoid in shape with dimensions of 16.7 cm...
The bony tongue of the newly-identified enantiornithine bird species, Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, was nearly as long as its head.
Life reconstruction...
Archaeologists have found the ancient charred remains of tea in a bowl from a Warring State period tomb in the ancient capital city site of the Zhu Kingdom,...
The ancient leather armor, datable to 786-543 BCE, was originally made of about 5,444 smaller scales and 140 larger scales, which, together with leather...
Paleontologists working in Brazil have uncovered the fossil of an ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Life reconstruction...
One or more volcanic eruptions preceded the majority (62 of 68) of dynastic collapses in China over the past 2,000 years, according to new research led...
