Paleontological classification and evolution - Animal Top 10

Ancient DNA reveals human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals

Oase1, a modern human mandible discovered in a cave in Romania in 2002, has a corrected carbon 14 direct dating date of ···

New progress in the evolution of bird skulls

The new specimen is named Pterygornis dapingfangensis, which is a relatively advanced enantiornithine. An external stern···

Animal filtering is nature’s choice

"Filtering" is a common method of feeding in the animal kingdom, and it is also a way in which natural selection acts on···

Ancient fish show new face - jaw-dropping scientific discovery

On September 25, the British "Nature" magazine website published a paleoecological restoration picture on the homepage h···

The Origin and Early Evolution of Teleosts

The bony fishes are the most prosperous group among living vertebrates and are divided into ray-finned fishes and lobe-f···

Zhanghe beast fossils and restoration pictures

The Zhanghetherium fossil, which dates back about 120 million years ago, is the world's first entheodont fossil with a r···

Primitive Jehol Bird Fossils and Ecological Restoration Maps

The primitive Jeholornis, which dates back to about 120 million years ago, is the most primitive bird discovered so far ···

Fossil characteristics of Confucius Birds

Confuciusornis, which dates back about 125 million years ago, is one of the earliest birds known to have a horny beak in···

Tibetan woolly rhinoceros

The 3.7 million-year-old woolly rhinoceros discovered in the high-altitude Zanda Basin in the Ali region of Tibet, my co···

Fossils of Long-tailed Red River Dragon discovered in Yunnan (the longest-tailed swollen-rib dragon

Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new genus of marine reptiles about 244 million years ago, the long-···

List of extinct animals (Inventory of Extinct Animals)

Different eras require animals to have different survival abilities. If you lived in ancient times, huge size and feroci···

Characteristics of Homo erectus

作为能人的后代，在距今大约２００万年前的非洲，直立人出现在人类进化的历史舞台上。直立人直立人的脑子已经明显增大，早期成员···

What are the advantages of Homo

Our current human beings are members of the genus Homo. They evolved from Homo habilis through Homo erectus and early Ho···

Zhoukoudian’s fire lights up the world

Among the relics of the Peking people discovered in Zhoukoudian, there are not only a large number of stone tools, but a···

Zhoukoudian Stoneware

Although Anderson noticed as early as 1921 that there were some white bladed vein quartz fragments at the site where the···

Mammal evolution and natural environment changes

In the early 20th century, some Western scholars, based on the evolution of mammals and changes in the natural environme···

Discovery of the first complete skull of Peking Man

The discovery of ancient human fossils in Zhoukoudian made Bu Dasheng, who was deeply involved in the "Central Asian Fev···

The earliest representative of the genus Homo

The origin of the hominid family represented by Ardipithecus and Australopithecus was an evolutionary leap, marking the ···

earliest human fossils

We already know that the oldest groups of members of the family Hominidae known so far are basically found in the east o···

Australopithecus australopithecine

While Dart and Bloom continued to discover Australopithecus in South Africa, the famous British paleoanthropologists Lea···

What the Beijingers discovered

In China, there have been legends and myths about "dragon" for a long time. The Chinese have known for a long time that ···

Homo erectus was first discovered on the banks of the Jiaocheng River.

Influenced by the idea of evolution, especially by the German Darwinist Haeckel, the young Dutch doctor Dubois firmly be···

Humankind’s understanding of its own development history

Humanity's understanding of its own development history began with modern Homo sapiens, then early Homo sapiens, and the···

Are humans created by God?

Ancient humans were very interested in their own origins and compiled a variety of myths and legends. For example, in Ch···