Paleontologists have analyzed cartilage material from Caudipteryx, an oviraptorosaurid dinosaur that lived in what in now China some 125 million years...
Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of pengornithid enantiornithine bird with a pair of elaborate tail feathers.
An illustration showing...
Paleontologists have uncovered seven well-preserved teeth from the extinct shark genus Petalodus in Shanxi province, China.
Life restoration of Petalodus...
The new specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Xiaguan Formation in the Chinese province of Henan is one of the few known fossilized turtle eggs containing...
Paleontologists have identified two new species of giant herbivorous dinosaurs from fossils found in the Turpan-Hami Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China.
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Archaeologists have uncovered 2,640- to 2,550-year-old clay moulds for casting spade coins as well as fragments of finished spade coins at Guanzhuang in...
Microbiologists at the Ohio State University have found that the ancient bacteria and their phages (bacteria-infecting viruses) from Tibetan glacier ice...
Homo longi is phylogenetically closer to Homo sapiens than to Neanderthals or other archaic humans, according to new research described in The Innovation.
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Paleontologists have described a new enantiornithine bird with a well-preserved skull from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China.
The Early Cretaceous...
A new species of the giant rhinoceros genus Paraceratherium has been identified from the fossilized remains found in Gansu Province, northwestern China.
Life...
An international team of zoologists from Australia and China has discovered two new cryptic species in the genus Eupetaurus — which previously included...
A research team in China has produced the high-quality reference genome for ‘Jingxun 2,’ a cultivar of the lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) recently...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 5.7-cm-long stegosaur footprint in Xinjiang province, China.
A life reconstruction of the stegosaur...
Given the current trends in Bitcoin mining, Chinese researchers estimate that the energy consumption from this process in their country alone will peak...
Opposed thumbs are adaptations to arboreal life and rare for non-mammal vertebrates; Kunpengopterus antipollicatus, a newly-discovered species of arboreal...
Fossiomanus sinensis and Jueconodon cheni, two distantly related species of mammaliamorphs that lived some 120 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch),...
Physicists from the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in China have detected the first candidate for...
Paleontologists from the United States and China have examined the middle ear bones (ossicles) of Vilevolodon diplomylos, a gliding haramiyidan that lived...
The largest genome-wide association study for eye color to date, involving up to 192,986 European participants from 10 populations, has identified 124...
Noeggerathiales are enigmatic plants that existed during Carboniferous and Permian times, 323 to 252 million years ago. Although their diversity and distribution...
