10+ hour, 4+ min ago  (339+ words) A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens was sold for a record US$50.1 million on Tuesday to a mystery bidder. Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is the most expensive set…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (468+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Sculptures of a man and a giant woman — both nearly 5m tall — by Japanese artist Toshimitsu Ito sit on a beach near the Xinwu Stone…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (396+ words) Lee Yao-chang (李耀昌) from Taiwan’s National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center said that amniotes use an integrated thoracic skeleton to inhale and exhale oxygen via costal muscles, a major difference from their anamniote relatives, which rely on breathing through their skin…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (325+ words) A team of Taiwanese and Japanese scientists has identified sea lion fossils in waters around Taiwan proper in a breakthrough discovery that raises new questions. The team, which includes Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修), an associate professor of life sciences at National…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (337+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Children react during the Face-to-Face with Dinosaurs event performed by Japanese troupe DINO-A-LIVE at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) yesterday. Kaohsiung…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (328+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A 9m brontosaurus inflatable sits on top of Chengcing Lake in Kaohsiung yesterday in observance of Children’s Day on Saturday. The installation coincides with a…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (360+ words) Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (363+ words) Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai…...