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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a vast territory and high terrain, and is known as the "Roof of the World". The formation of the Tibetan Plateau was caused by the collision of the Indian and Asian plates (about 50 million years ago). However, scientists have very different understandings of how...
Chinese and American researchers said on the 12th that two fossils discovered in northern China showed that early mammals had learned to climb trees and dig holes in the ground during the Jurassic Period, which was dominated by dinosaurs about 160 million years ago. , showing diverse ecologic...
Recently, Nature Ecology & Evolution, a subsidiary journal of Nature magazine, published a study independently completed by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the independent evolution of the skull and body of early birds. Li Z...
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...
Paleontologists call the impressions and replicas of paleontological remains left in rock formations or surrounding rocks called cast fossils. They can be divided into five types based on their relationship with the surrounding rocks: impression fossils, impression fossils, and core fossils....
Fossil evidence shows that the earliest winged insects appeared in the late Carboniferous period. That was about 300 million years ago. Tall and dense forests grew everywhere on the earth. However, the tree species were completely different from modern large trees. They were mainly tropical f...
In 1928, the famous American geological paleontologist Professor Gripp published a scientific masterpiece - "The Geological History of China". In this book, he proposed the term "Jehol Biota" for the first time to represent the comprehensive fossil group distributed in the wolf-finned fish ro...
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