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On May 2, a research team composed of paleontologists from various research institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong, Canada and other places reported in the journal Nature Communication a species that lived about 125 m···
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For a long time, gomphotheres have been considered a central link in the evolution of proboscis. The origins of Rhynchotheres and Cuvieroniines are more or less related to codons. However, Codon is also considered to be ···
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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 instit···
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Cats are the most specialized category of carnivores. Their typical characteristics are: retractable claws, short blunt snout, well-developed canine teeth and cleft teeth, and tooth degeneration after the cleft teeth. Ac···
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"Nature" (Nature) sub-journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution" (Nature Ecology & Evolution) published online on September 4, Zhu Min's team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese···
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Hadrosaurs are a type of large terrestrial herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period. Their fossils are widely distributed and have been found on other continents except Oceania. The mo···
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Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and several research institutions in China and the United States jointly published a study on the biology of Y···
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The Xinjiang Hami scientific expedition team led by researcher Wang Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of ···
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Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min’s team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with scholars from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the U···
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The Luoping Fauna is a group of biological fossils preserved in the early Middle Triassic strata in the Luoping area of Yunnan, my country. Similar fossil assemblages are also found in Panxian, Guizhou, and are also call···
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"Scientific Reports" published on February 27 reported the research results of a new species of ankylosaurus fossils discovered in Hu Town, Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province. This species was officially named Ji···
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Kuban pigs (kubanochoeres) are a type of huge pigs with hump-shaped teeth that once lived in the Old World. They were mainly distributed in the Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, and are found in Africa and Eurasia. For a ···
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Regalerpeton weichangensis is a type of tailed amphibian from the Early Cretaceous in Weichang, Hebei Province. Recently, the research team of researcher Wang Yuan from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology conducted ···
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China's Neogene terrestrial strata are widely exposed. For example, the Linxia Basin in Gansu develops continuous strata from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene, covering the complete Neogene period and rich in mammal ···
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On May 26, Zhou Zhonghe’s research team at the Institute of Vertebral Paleolithology reported in Scientific Reports a new pheasant fossil material with nearly complete skeleton preservation. The specimen was found in th···
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Both sexes of Chilotherium have no horns. The snout of the mandible is strongly expanded laterally and has two huge tusks with sharp blades. The upper incisors have completely degenerated and disappeared. They flourished···
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Xu Xing's team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published their latest results on the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs in the British journal Natur···
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Turtles are familiar animals, but their evolutionary history is one of the biggest mysteries in paleontology: whether they originated independently from anapora (no other openings in the skull behind the eye holes), or w···
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Recently, Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe, and Thomas from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published the latest research results in the Proceedings of the National···
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The cave bear Ursus spelaeus (and its ancestor Ursus deningeri) is an iconic fossil species in Europe during the Quaternary Period and one of the earliest fossil species recognized by humans. The giant bears once roamed ···
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Recently, PLoS ONE reported online that Platylomaspis serratus gen. et sp. nov., the earliest multi-branched fish discovered in the Silurian System of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, will The origin of multibranched ···
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The reduction in the number of fingers or toes has occurred many times in the evolution of tetrapods. The most famous example is the "Horse Fossil Sequence" (this is a series of equine fossils from primitive to progressi···
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