Many insects have been described from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber in recent years, including about 50 families of wasps. However, only ......
Classifications and comparisons of petrified wood are currently based primarily on observable morphologies. The mineralogical characteristics of speci......
The extinct bristletail genus Dasyleptus is a typical late Palaeozoic insect group that widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Here we describ......
We present the first description of the bone microstructure of the ornithuromorph bird Yanornis from the Early Cretaceous Jehol ornithofauna. Yanornis......
The phenomenon characterised by faster growth of the side of trees exposed to sunlight relative to the opposite side is termed plant phototropism. Ver......
With four genera and some 330 extant species, the Trogidae are a small group of scarabaeoid beetles that feed on hard keratinous tissue. Here, the fir......
Late Jurassic dinosaur track assemblages from China are much less common than those reported from the Lower and Middle Jurassic which are heavily domi......
Material of Indarctos and other Caniformia fossils from the Yale Peabody Museum G.E. Lewis Siwalik expedition collections from Pakistan and northern I......
Phenacodontidae are a group of archaic ungulates in the early Paleogene and are considered to play an important role in the origin of some other ungul......
This study describes a new member of Similifaveoloolithidae from the Upper Cretaceous Zhoutian Formation of Jiangxi, China. The new ootaxon, Wormoolit......
Shanyangzhai Cave, located in Hebei Province, North China, has yielded a large number of snake bones dated back to the late middle Pleistocene and lat......
The Middle Triassic (Anisian) Guanling Formation in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, southwestern China, is well-known for its marine-reptile fauna with ......
A sauropod track assemblage from a surface in the Upper Jurassic fluvial Tianchihe Formation at the Guanxi site, Shanxi Province, China, is re-documen......
New fossil remains of limb bones referred to Hipparion (Hippotherium) chiai from 7.4 Ma in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Fugu, Shaanxi, Chin......
The Cretaceous Hengshan Formation at the Baxian tracksite, central Zhejiang has yielded more than 20 sauropod tracks with a considerable size range (p......