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...
With over 50,000 species, Osteichthyans, or bony fish,accounts for 98% of the present-day vertebrates. Bony fish falls into two groups:actine-pterygians, meaning ray-finned bony fish, and sarcopterygians, meaning lob...
Chinese and American researchers have found a 125-million-year-old new species of mammal from the diversified trove of Jehol Fauna. Their work on the discovery has been published in a recent issue of Nature.
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...
The lacustrine deposits in the Early Cretaceous JeholGroup in northeast China's Liaoning Province is a treasure house for paleontological studies.Recently, CAS scientists made new significant discoveries there: fossil...
According to an official announcement by the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), a piece of critical evidence for the origin and early evolution of feathers has been described from a...