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Researchers help shed light on the evolution of lungs
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (396+ words) Lee Yao-chang () 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 or…...
Scientists unearth sea lion fossil first near Taiwan
1+ mon, 2+ 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 (), an associate professor of life sciences at National Taiwan…...
Jurassic Kaohsiung
1+ mon, 2+ 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…...
Prehistoric visitor
1+ 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…...
Taiwan's largest snake fossil, at 4m, found in Tainan
2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...
Taiwan's largest snake fossil found in Tainan
2+ 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…...