5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (346+ words) Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order — a group of non-woody flowering plants widely spread across temperate and cold mountain regions. The breakthrough validates a prediction made by British naturalist Charles Darwin in…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (174+ words) China Daily Global Edition Carnivorous plant discovery validates theory proposed by Darwin 150 years ago Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order — a group of non-woody flowering plants widely spread across temperate and cold…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (565+ words) Chinese scientists have identified a 244-million-year-old reptile fossil from Southwest China's Yunnan province as the earliest known archosauromorph that was highly adapted to life in water, providing the first clear evidence that some early members of the evolutionary group had…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) A museum themed on pterosaurs, winged reptiles closely related to dinosaurs, will open in September in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. According to Wang Xiaolin, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (543+ words) A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known long-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic period, filling a critical gap in scientists' understanding of how dinosaurs' long tails evolved into the short, compact…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (233+ words) Zhou Zhonghe, an author of the study and a professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, said developmental studies have long suggested that tail shortening could result from just a few genetic mutations. "Because long-tailed and short-tailed birds…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (456+ words) China Daily - Global Edition Early land plants reshaped Earth 30m yrs earlier than thought, study finds The expansion of early land plants across terrestrial environments has been a key focus in planetary evolution research due to its crucial role in raising…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (771+ words) The undisputed rulers of Earth some 65 million years ago have returned, crossing oceans and epochs, to greet modern audiences in Beijing. Opened on April 28 at the Natural History Museum of China, T-REX: A Special Exhibition for the King of Dinosaurs…...

3+ mon, 3+ week 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....

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (636+ words) While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains challenging due to the scarcity of primitive fossils....