2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (180+ words) NANCHANG " A tiny fossil dinosaur egg unearthed in East China's Jiangxi province has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the smallest non-avian dinosaur egg ever found, the Jiangxi provincial institute of geological survey and exploration announced on Friday....

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (256+ words) BEIJING -- A team of researchers has proposed that a large area in Central China be recognized as a new global biodiversity hotspot. This designation would serve to highlight its extraordinary plant life and urgent conservation needs. The study, led by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (155+ words) Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, Chongqing. This remarkable find, dating back to the early Silurian Period, was published on Thursday in the journal Nature. According to researchers, the discovery pushes…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (378+ words) BEIJING -- A team of international scientists from China and Spain has identified two well-preserved fossilized lizard trackways in Asturias, Spain, marking the first record of Jurassic lizard trackways in Europe. Conducted by the team led by Laura Pinuela from the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (373+ words) BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have discovered new cyprinid fish fossils from the early and middle Miocene of the Lunpola Basin in Northwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These findings indicate that fish diversity on the plateau was notably high between 18 and 15 million years…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (392+ words) Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back more than 200 million years have been found on a rock face in the Italian Alps, near the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics venue of Bormio, officials have announced. The footprints, some up to 40 centimeters across,…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (213+ words) A massive, long-necked dinosaur that tramped through what is now Southwest China's Chongqing approximately 160 million years ago has been identified as a new species, shedding fresh light on the diversity of giant sauropods in Late Jurassic East Asia. With a…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (146+ words) Talking about the resurrection of dinosaurs, scientists said, relying on protein research, AI and gene editing technologies, creating living dinosaurs in the next 100 to 200 years is highly possible. Scientists: Dinosaur resurrection highly possible The 4-day "China Dinosaurs: International Symposium on…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (556+ words) A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the human family tree. The paper, titled "The…...

10+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (1052+ words) Twenty-five years after it first captivated global audiences, the landmark BBC documentary Walking with Dinosaurs has returned with a new six-episode series, once again capturing the imagination of Chinese viewers with its vivid portrayal of prehistoric life. Narrated by British…...