Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil,pushing the class’s origins back by 20 million years and offering new insights into early life on Earth,In a remarkable discovery,a team of Chines...
funded by the National Science Foundation of China(CN)(Nos.42090054,41922055,41931295);the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province of China(No.2020BCB079)。
Landslides frequently occurred in Jurassic red strata in the Three Gorges Reservoir(TGR)region in China.The Jurassic strata consist of low mechanical strength and poor permeability of weak silty mudstone layer,which m...
supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency contracts(APVV-0436-12,APVV-18-0075);the UNESCO-Amba/MVTS supporting grant of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency(VEGA 2/0113/22,1/0467/20);the Operational Program of Research and Development and co-financed with the European Fund for Regional Development(EFRD),(ITMS 26230120004)(Building of research and development infrastructure for inves-tigations of genetic biodiversity of organisms),the IBOL initiative,and the PROGRES Q45(Charles University,Prague);funded by Woodside Energy Ltd.and Chevron Australia Pty Ltd.Project CRE(Cretaceous Resin Event:global bioevent of massive resin production at the initial diversification of modern forest ecosystems)was funded by the Spanish AEI/FEDER,UE Grant(CGL2017-84419);supported by a senior postdoctoral fellowship from the Rachadaphiseksomphot Fund,Graduate School,Chulalongkorn University;the research project INSU INTERRVIE NOVAMBRE 2(coord.D.N.)as well as a contribution to the activity of the laboratory‘Advanced Mi-cropalaeontology,Biodiversity and Evolution Researches’(AM-BER)led by D.A.at the Lebanese University.
With the exception of a fly and a mite from the Triassic of Italy,all Mesozoic amber arthropods are from the Cretaceous.Late Jurassic Lebanese amber from Aintourine revealed a completely preserved adult coccid male(wi...
The research project was co-funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42072172,No.41772120);Shandong Province Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(No.JQ201311);the Graduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Project Financially Supported by Shandong University of Science and Technology(No.SDKDYC190313).
The high-pressure mercury intrusion (HPMI) experiment is widely used to assess the pore architecture oftight sandstone reservoirs. However, the conventional analysis of the high- pressure mercury intrusionhas always f...
Anhui Natural Science Foundation Youth Program,Grant/Award Number:2208085QE142;National Natural Science Foundations of China,Grant/Award Numbers:52004003,52304073;Opening Foundation of Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Building Structure and Underground Engineering,Grant/Award Number:KLBSUE-2022-04。
To study the energy evolution and failure characteristics of saturated sandstone under unloading conditions,rock unloading tests under different stress paths were conducted.The energy evolution mechanism of the unload...
This work is supported by China Geological Survey(DD20230221);Department of Natural Resources of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region(GXZC2022-C3-001314-GXCJ).
1.Objectives Dinosaur fossils were first discovered from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 1960s,mainly including fossil bones and teeth from the Cretaceous.Only one dorsal vertebra and one ischium were reported fro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42172034, 41772023, 41972022, 42330208, 41930218, 42288201);the China Geological Survey Project (Grant Nos. DD20243469, DD20221829);the Strategic Priority Program (B) of CAS (Grant No. XDB26000000)。
Corystosperms, an extinct group of “seed ferns” that lived from the late Permian to the Cretaceous or Eocene, are significant for seed plant phylogeny for their unique roles in partially resolving the long-standing ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42288201,32020103006,and 42072012);the Support Project of High-Level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities in the Period of 14th Five-year Plan(BPHR20220114);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Sun Yat-sen University(24lgqb009)。
Palaeoecological research is essential to understanding the interaction between organisms and their environment during the evolutionary process.However,the study of fossil insect communities is challenging because of ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42241202 and 42072258);the Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Team Project in Shaanxi Province.
Saline giants are thick,regionally extensive marine evaporites composed primarily of gypsum(CaSO_(4)·2H_(2)O),anhydrite(CaSO_(4))and halite(NaCl)that crystallize from hypersaline solutions known as brine.No present-d...
co-funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42372160, 42072172);Shandong Province Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant No. JQ201311);the Graduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Project financially supported by Shandong University of Science and Technology (Grant No. SDKDYC190313)。
The Jurassic coal-measure source rocks in the Junggar Basin have drawn considerable attention in recent years. In our hydrocarbon thermal simulation experiments of these rocks, we found that the dark mudstone evaluate...