1 Archaeologists work on the site in Lufeng, Yunnan Province. (Photo/China News Service)
(ECNS) A 1.7-meter-long dinosaur larva fossil not belonging to any known genus has been unearthed from the Early Jurassic strata in Lufeng, Yunnan Province, according to Yunan University on Wednesday.
The dinosaur, with leaf-shaped teeth in the fossil, is believed to have been herbivorous.
This is the second time that sauropodiform dinosaur larva fossils have been found in the Early Jurassic strata of Lufeng. The unearthed fossils include part of the skull, complete cervical and dorsal vertebrate, metacarpal bones, as well as the distal femur and proximal tibia.
Latest research: prehistoric egg shells give clues to duck-billed dinosaurs
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Specimens of broken fossilized dinosaur egg shells are seen at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), April 20, 2021. These shells have little difference from eggshell fragments found in the Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong and are an analogous to egg shells of maiasaura. It is estimated its mother belongs to the specie of Hadrosaurids, duck-billed dinosaurs, a latest research indicates. (Photo/Provided to China News Service by IVPP)
Specimens of broken fossilized dinosaur egg shells are seen at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), April 20, 2021. These shells have little difference from eggshell fragments found in the Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong and are an analogous to egg shells of maiasaura. It is estimated its mother belongs to the specie of Hadrosaurids, duck-billed d
2021-04-19 06:05:48 GMT2021-04-19 14:05:48(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Hu Tao, Zhang Wenjing
LANZHOU, April 19 (Xinhua) Chinese archaeologists are using the latest technology to understand the lives of an ancient ancestor of human beings, based on a jawbone fossil found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
By studying the fossil and sediments from the Baishiya Karst Cave in which the fossil was discovered, researchers have identified the jawbone as belonging to an extinct species of archaic human named Denisovan hominins that had previously only been found in Siberia.
In addition to extending the known range of the Denisovans, the discovery provides evidence of pre-historic human activity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at least 160,000 years ago, much earlier than the previous date of 40,000 years ago.
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Neandertal DNA recovered from cave mud reveals that these ancient humans spread across Eurasia in two different waves.
Analysis of genetic material from three caves in two countries suggests an early wave of Neandertals about 135,000 years ago may have been replaced by genetically and potentially anatomically distinct successors 30,000 years later, researchers report April 15 in
Science. The timing of this later wave suggests potential links to climate and environmental shifts.
By extracting genetic material from mud, “we can get human DNA from people who lived in a cave without having to find their remains, and we can learn interesting things about those people from that DNA,” says Benjamin Vernot, a population geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
2021-04-09 11:17 By: ecns.cn
The well-preserved fossil specimen of a new colobodontid, Feroxichthys panzhouensis sp. nov., is presented by Xu Guanghui, a researcher from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, April 7, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Sun Zifa)
A Chinese research team in Panzhou City, China’s Guizhou has discovered the Colobodontidae, a stem group of large-sized neopterygians with a durophagous feeding adaption from the Middle to Late Triassic marine ecosystems, which dates back to 244 million years ago. The new finding provides an important addition for the understanding of the morphological and ecological diversity of neopterygian fishes from the Triassic marine ecosystems in South China.