A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the ...

Jacuzzis are normally places you want to be. That's not true in the "jacuzzi of death" which because of its unique geological ...

Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

and still rising plateau on Earth. It reflects the complex evolutionary history of the Tethys Ocean, which existed hundreds of million years ago. In areas such as Chamdo, during the Early Jurassic ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...