Norellraptor barsboldi, a new species of small microraptorine dinosaur from the 120-million-year-old rock beds of China’s Liaoning province, challenges...
A new species of deltatheroidan mammal from China may be the oldest confirmed ancestor of marsupials yet found, offering fresh evidence that Asia played...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based on a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern China. Named Kayrasaurus...
Jian changmaensis is the first non-avian dinosaur found at a paleontological site that has yielded more than 100 specimens of Early Cretaceous birds.
Jian...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of extinct scorpion from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China.
Jeholia longchengi is the...
A new genus and species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine bird has been identified from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton preserved with traces...
The evolution of feathers is associated with novel skin ultrastructures, but the fossil record of these changes is poor and thus the critical transition...
Paleontologists have described a new species of enantiornithine bird with a toothless beak from the Jehol avifauna of China. The discovery pushes back...
Paleontologists from China and Brazil have identified a new species of chaoyangopterid pterosaur from two specimens, one of which is the most complete...
A new genus and species of maniraptoran dinosaur has been described from the fossilized skeletal material found in Inner Mongolia, China.
Reconstruction...
Paleontologists have examined five specimens with differently preserved feathers from Sapeornis chaoyangensis, an early bird species that lived during...
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...
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...
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)...
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 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...
