The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(NIGPAS)was established to bring together experts in various fossil taxa and geological periods,to conduct both basic and applied research ...
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have reported two extremely rare fossil lampreys from the Jurassic of nor...
While ravens do not occur in what is now the Chinese capital of Beijing today,a new scientific study analyzing fossil bird bones from the UNESCO World Heritage Zhoukoudian“Peking Man”site demonstrates that ravens li...
A trove of fossils,unearthed in rock from China dating back some 436 million years,has revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids,members of an extinct clade of jawless fish,possessed paired fins.The d...
The human middle ear—which houses three tiny,vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear,where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear.Embryonic and fossil evidence proves tha...
The discovery in China of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic suggests that flowers originated 50 million years earlier than previously thought.Scientists have discovered the earl...
Known as the 'true terrestrial tetrapod,' reptiles mainly live on land. However, some reptile groups made a secondary adaptation to their life in water. Generally called 'marine reptiles,'
Lichens are believed to play a pioneering role in transforming the earthsurface when they appeared on land hundreds of million years ago, paving the way for the evolutionof terrestrial plants and animals. But most hab...
A news release announces that the fossilized remains of one or two primitivemen were recently discovered in a cave in the vicinity of the world-renowned site of Peking Man. Thenews was released at a press conference j...