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Ancient Chinese fish fossils fill critical gap in "fish to human" evolution
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (414+ words) BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago -- one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth -- have been discovered in China, filling a critical gap in the…...
China Focus: Ancient Chinese fish fossils fill critical gap in "fish to human" evolution
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (413+ words) BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago -- one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth -- have been discovered in China, filling a critical gap in the…...
Chinese fossil find illuminates Earth's earliest mass extinction
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (302+ words) NANJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: the first mass extinction of complex animal life. For decades, however,…...
New fossil analysis sheds light on evolutionary history of Jurassic Ginkgoalean plants
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (210+ words) BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Global researchers recently made new progress in the systematics and evolutionary diversity of Mesozoic ginkgoalean plants, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research, conducted by the institute…...
Hungarian discovery sheds new light on horned dinosaurs in Europe
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (301+ words) The fossil, attributed to Ajkaceratops Kozmai, was unearthed at the Iharkut (central Hungary) fossil site in the Bakony Mountains and studied by an international research team led by paleontologist Attila Osi of Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE). The research findings were…...