Paleontological classification and evolution - Animal Top 10

The evolution of various human regional classifications (what is modern man)

In Africa more than 100,000 years ago, the earliest humans appeared who were identical in body anatomy to modern humans.···

Discovery of Auroantium fossils

Some scholars at home and abroad believe that E. sinensis is not a higher primate. The reason is that it shows many prim···

Discovery of the fossils of Eunapithecus sinensis

In 1985, paleoanthropologist Lin Yipu discovered some ancient mammal fossils in the fissure accumulation of the Jellyfis···

The Origin and Characteristics of Artiodactyls

In the early Eocene, a small animal called Paleoartiodactyl differentiated from the anklets. In addition to having a pro···

The Origin and Characteristics of Perissodactyls

In the North American continent during the early Eocene 50 million years ago, a fox-sized herbivore emerged from the pri···

The evolution of carnivorous mammals

The history of carnivores can be traced back to protozoa hundreds of millions of years ago, when amoebas ate other singl···

The evolution of whales (long-legged whales)

Modern whales have smooth skin and streamlined body shapes. Their huge tails create huge waves in the sea water, pushing···

The great family of true beasts after the second great outbreak

During the period starting from the Eocene and continuing to the Oligocene, the ancestors of modern mammals stood out fr···

Classification of ancient mammal groups

The earliest true beasts were insectivores (order) that appeared in the Cretaceous. After entering the Cenozoic Era, the···

The evolution of eutherian animals

Almost at the same time as the origin of marsupials, another more progressive mammal differentiated from the ancient bea···

The development of marsupials

The only order in the subclass Metatheria is the Marsupial order. It has experienced great development since it originat···

Platypus and monotremes

After experiencing the catastrophe at the end of the Mesozoic Era until modern times, there is still a primitive mammal ···

Animals that survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs

We already know that the tragic mass extinction of the dinosaurs marked the end of the Mesozoic Era. In fact, it was not···

Ancestor types of humans and mammals

A large number of primitive mammal fossil skeletons discovered in the Triassic strata of South Wales, England, are repre···

Origins and Characteristics of Mammals

As early as the late Triassic, when dinosaurs had just entered the evolutionary stage, a group of small animals that wer···

Specialized characteristics of armorless amphibians

Frogs, toads and salamanders are familiar amphibians. They are still active in ponds, rice fields, swamps, streams, rive···

Introduction to shell-vertebrate amphibians

Most conchovertebrates are small amphibians, adapted to life in shallow water and swamps. They first appeared in the Ear···

The earliest amphibians on earth (labyrinths)

Labyrinths are the earliest terrestrial vertebrates to appear on earth. They flourished in the Carboniferous and Permian···

The origin and evolution of amphibians

The origin of amphibians probably occurred in the late Devonian period. At that time, a certain species of lobe-finned f···

Basic structure of amphibians

At the end of the Devonian period, a certain kind of lobe-finned fish ventured out of the water and climbed onto land, b···

The origin and evolution history of turtles (long-lived animals)

We Chinese have long known that turtles are long-lived animals, so there has been a proverb from ancient times: "A thous···

The story of the living fossil Latimei fish

For a long time, the scientific community has believed that lobe-finned fishes, including coelacanths, were extinct from···

Who are the ancestors of four-legged vertebrates?

Because lungfish have lungs and internal nostrils that can breathe air, they have long been considered the earliest terr···

The evolution of lobe-finned fishes

The earliest representative of lobe-finned fish is the skeletal fish of the middle Devonian period. From it, we can actu···