The connection between horses and human history can be traced back 350 centuries. The earliest records come from wild horses in cave paintings from the Middle Paleolithic period in France and Spain, about 35,000 to 100,000 years ago. The history of human domestication of horses is later than...
Sabre-toothed cats were widely distributed in the Neogene and Quaternary periods of the New and Old Worlds. They are a long-lasting group of carnivores. They first appeared in the middle Miocene and coexisted with humans until the early Holocene. Extinction. There is evidence that the demise...
Archosaurs are sometimes called archosaurs, which originally means "leading reptiles or ruling reptiles". This group includes the familiar dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles. fossils and modern animals. Before the earliest dinosaurs appeared, various primitive archosaurs we...
Recently, a new bird fossil site was discovered near Sihedang Town, Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province. Initially, it was reported that all the bird fossils produced at this site belong to the same modern bird: Iteravis huchzermeyeri ). The bird fossil origins of the Early Cretaceous are genera...
On February 1, Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe, Zou Jingmei of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Pan Yanhong of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology reported in Nature Communications a discovery of 130 million The Early Cretac...
On February 16, 2017, Scientific Reports published an article by Wang Xiaolin’s research team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiang Shunxing and Cheng Xin, and Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Wang Xiao...
Zhu Min’s team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has made new progress in the field of early vertebrate animal research. On March 8, the magazine "PLOS ONE" reported the latest scientific research results of Dr. Chu Bulan and other...
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...
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 million years ago. Dinosaur of the year - Jianianhualongs tengi. This is a...
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 a problematic genus and a garbage bin group in the evolutio...
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 institutions in the UK and the United States published a paper in...
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. According to the current fossil record, the earliest cat was...
"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 Academy of Sciences, on the fish landing New progress in t...
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 most obvious features of hadrosaurs are the long and flat head with...
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 Sciences, after more than ten years of continuous field scientific...
The Sanjiangyuan area of Qinghai is located in the southeastern part of the Qinghai Plateau. It has a special geographical location and a unique ecological environment. It has always been regarded as a hotspot for plateau biodiversity. It is home to snow leopards, rabbit cats, T...
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 University of Michigan in the United States, have created a new bas...
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 called Panxian Fauna. For a long time, abundant marine life fossils have been found...
"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 Jinyunpelta sinensis. The research results were jointly completed by researchers Z...
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 long time, paleontologists have been debating whether the Cuban pig should be es...
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