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From the end of 1996 to the spring of 1997, many international news media rushed to report on the discovery of two primitive "bird" fossils in the Beipiao area of Liaoning Province, China-Confucius Birds and Sinosauropte···
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In July 1990, a research team led by Dr. Jin Fan, a young paleoichthyologist from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was traveling through mountains and rivers in···
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Early birds were still very poor in number and variety, and the chance of being turned into fossils was very small. For example, only six skeleton fossils and one feather specimen of the late Jurassic Archeopteryx fossil···
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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 repres···
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In 1861, the oldest bird fossil was discovered in the Upper Jurassic limestone (a limestone formation formed in the late Jurassic) in Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. Not only were the bones preserved, but there were also tr···
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Complete map of the geological end table (main biological evolution)
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In order to understand and evaluate the phylogenetic position of the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros within the rhinoceros subfamily, Deng Tao et al. analyzed a group containing 17 species of Rhinoceros, including all 5 living···
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The Tibetan Woolly Rhinoceros has the typical characteristics of the Woolly Rhinoceros: such as a slender skull, an ossified nasal septum, a broad and flat nasal horn base, a downwardly inclined nasal bone, an elevated a···
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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, ···
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The most primitive woolly rhinoceros in the world from the Pliocene Epoch in Tibet (about 3.7 million years ago) provides important evidence to solve the mystery of the evolution of this type of animal. This batch of pre···
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During the Pliocene Epoch, the average altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was only a few hundred meters to about 1,000 meters. Scientists have accumulated extremely thick river and lake facies at an altitude of more t···
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1. Archaeopteryx specimens, gradient, evolution from dragon to bird As more and more feathered dinosaurs and primitive bird fossils are discovered, scientists have found that there are more and more similarities between ···
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Regulations on the Protection of Paleontological FossilsChapter 1 General ProvisionsArticle 1 These Regulations are formulated in order to strengthen the protection of paleontological fossils and promote the scientific r···
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Humans are the new generation of "Earth Overlords" after the dinosaurs, but the two appeared 58 million years apart. This is a long process, and many stories must have happened during this period. After the dinosaurs bec···
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On May 19, 2016, Current Biology published the research results of Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min’s research group at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and col···
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"Scientific Reports" published on May 24, 2016 reported a new genus and species of mammals discovered in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota - Luo's Late Teeth - jointly researched by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontolog···
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On June 3, 2016, the American magazine "ScienceAdvances" published online the latest research results of Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min's research group at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,···
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Modern argali sheep (Ovis) are widely distributed in a series of mountain ranges such as the Caucasus, Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, Tianshan-Altai Mountains, Eastern Siberia, and the Rocky Mountains of North America. In E···
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Associate researcher Wang Yuan of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with the research team of Zhang Hanwen, a doctoral student at the University of ···
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Among the elephantoids, the main group of proboscis, the development of a pair of huge upper incisors (ivory) has become a distinctive feature of this group. This structure is often used as a feeding tool for individuals···
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Bearded vultures and vultures are collectively known as Old World vultures, although they do not form a sister group within the order Accipiliformes. Abundant fossil evidence shows that Old World vultures were widely dis···
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The joint team of Zhu Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden has made a major breakthrough in the field of r···
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Recently, researcher Xu Guanghui of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and his graduate students Ma Xinying and Ren Yi published the latest research results on Triassic fishes in Yunnan and Guizhou in the American ···
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The steppe weasel Lyncodontini is a small mustelid that is now only distributed in South America. However, during the Quaternary period, the steppe weasel once spread across Eurasia, especially the European sea otter mar···
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