supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDB26000000 and XDA20070203);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42102001,41430102,41872001,41872005 and 41772018);Key Frontier Science Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.QYZDY-SSW-DQC-22 and GJHZ1885);China Scholarship Council;Frick Fund,Division of Vertebrate Paleontology,AMNH.
Mammals have high dispersal ability,and many lineages can spread across the continents when a landbridge appears.Here,we summarize the dispersal of mammals between the Old and New World at the end of the Miocene.Our a...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31900372,31822049)。
Scientific research provides essential information for conservation of threatened species.Data deficiency due to insufficient research impedes the design of conservation plans,and research bias may mistakenly direct l...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30970332,31093430);National Special Fund on Basic Research of Science and Technology of China(2014FY110100);Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(2005DKA21402)
DEAR EDITOR,The ferret-badger Melogale cucphuongensis was first described from Cuc Phuong National Park in Vietnam, with no subsequent reports in later years. During our surveys of the Wuyishan Mountains of Fujian Pro...
supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos.XDA20070203, XDB26000000, QYZDY-SSW-DQC-22, GJHZ1885);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41430102 and 41772018, 41625005)
The first unequivocal remains of medium to large-sized mustelids from the middle Miocene Halamagai and Kekemaideng formations have been found in the Ulungur River area, Xinjiang, northwestern China. These new fossils ...
We gratefully acknowledge Nikolai Ovodov for providing additional data on the material from Kurtak archaeological area.We thank Alexey Tesakov for scientific discussion that critically improved the paper.We are also indebted to Katya Firsova and Igor Foronov,who kindly prepared the design of figures for the purpose of this study.M.Sotnikova acknowledges the financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,project 12-05-00-904a.
A lion-like pantherine felid is described as Panthera(Leo)fossilis from the late Early Pleistocene sediments of the Kuznetsk Basin(Western Siberia,Russia).The find of P.fossilis first recorded in Asia considerably ext...
Mammalian carnivores are rarely considered for environmental reconstructions because they are extremely adaptable and their geographic range is usually large. However, the functional morphology of carnivore long bones...
This paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30200033,30230080,30170133).
Niubeiliang National Nature Reserve(NNR,108°45p-109°04p E,33°47p-33°56p N)is located on the east-ern range of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province,China and spans the southern and northern slopes of Mt.Qinlin...