supported by the National ScienceFoundation of China (Grant No. 31670215);Special Program of Key Lab for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia (Jilin University),Ministry of Education, China (Grant No. 201801)。
Objective Numerous vertebrate fossils, dominated by the Mammuthus–Coelodonta fauna, have been found from many Late Pleistocene fossil sites in Heilongjiang,northeast China(Jin and Kawamura, 1996). However,fossil turt...
A juvenile specimen of the black turtle, Chelonia mydas agassizii, was located in the shores of Cabo Tamar Island in the western entrance of the Strait of Magellan, Chile. A king crab angler found the specimen, and do...
A 7-year old tortoise was examined for the presence of a hard swelling,hindering the necessary neck bending mechanism.Surgical removal was the solution to regain the mechanism normality.
We present an annotated checklist for a total 241 reptiles and 22 amphibians including 5 frogs, 9 toads, 7 newts and salamanders, 1 crocodile, 1 worm lizard, 148 lizards, 79 snakes and 12 turtles and tortoises, includ...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31071892) to Yuezhao WANG;the "Hundred Talents Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-R-077) to Yezhong TANG
The validity of Pelodiscus parviformis within the genus is still not very clear. In this study, molecular and morphological data were combined to evaluate the validity of P parviformis. The phylogeny of some species i...