Frogs, toads and salamanders are familiar amphibians. They are still active in ponds, rice fields, swamps, streams, rivers and wet places on land. All these living amphibians belong to a large family, the "slip-bodied amphibians", which used to be called "armorless amphibians". As the name su...
China has discovered six quite complete mammal fossils dating to 160 million years ago; and named three new species in two new genera of mythical beasts and fairy beasts, namely Shenshoului (Lu's mythical beast) and Xianshoulinglong (Linglong). Xianshousongae) and Xianshousongae (Song family...
Modern whales have smooth skin and streamlined body shapes. Their huge tails create huge waves in the sea water, pushing their bodies to swim freely in the sea. But did you know that in the distant geological time, whales were once terrestrial animals with well-developed limbs? The discovery...
The ancient spine is located in a new type of pterosaur found in the famous Jehol Biota in the western Liaoning region of my country about 120 million years ago - Ikrandraco avatar gen.et sp.nov. The top of the skull of this new pterosaur is straight, and a strange blade-shaped semicircular b...
When the American paleobotanist Letariak was analyzing and studying the Late Ordovician ancient soil in Pennsylvania, he discovered the fossilized footprints of some annelids or arthropods that entered deep into the soil from the surface. Based on these fossils, it is inferred that the terres...
On August 30, a scientific research team composed of researcher Xu Guanghui from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researchers from many research institutions in the UK and the United States published a paper in...
On December 5, 2019, Science magazine published online an article by Mao Fangyuan, Wang Yuanqing and other scholars from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Meng Jin from the American Museum of Natural History on the origin of the e...
The glacial fauna has long been recognized to be closely related to the global cooling events of the Pleistocene. The animals in it also showed adaptations to cold environments, such as being huge, covered in long hair, and having body structures that can scrape snow. Mammoths and woolly rhin...