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1. African elephant African elephants are the largest land mammals, exhibiting sexual dimorphism (males and females differ in size and phys...
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The theory of atmospheric composition changes leading to the extinction of dinosaurs
The mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period remains one of the greatest mysteries in biologica...
Immunodeficiency that led to the extinction of dinosaurs
Some scientists believe that current theories about the extinction of dinosaurs emphasize external factors, such as ast...
The comet impact theory of dinosaur extinction
This hypothesis about the extinction of dinosaurs posits that the culprit behind the cataclysmic event at the end of th...
The history of the discovery of dinosaurs and Mesozoic reptiles
The earliest fossilized skeleton of a large reptile to attract scientific attention was discovered in 1770, about 40 ye...
Morphological characteristics and evolution of Archaeopteryx
In 1861, the oldest known bird fossil was discovered in the Upper Jurassic limestone (i.e., limestone strata formed in ...
The Jehol Biota, a major discovery in western Liaoning, China
In 1928, the renowned American geologist and paleontologist, Professor Graeme, published a monumental scientific work, ...
A paleoichthyologist accidentally became a paleornithologist.
In July 1990, a research team led by Dr. Jin Fan, a young paleontologist from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...
The Three Pagodas of China's bird is the earliest known flying bird in the world.
Early birds were extremely rare in both number and variety, so their chances of becoming fossils were very slim. For ex...
Evidence that birds originated from archosaurs
Just when the claim that birds originated from dinosaurs was overwhelming, Hou Lianhai, a renowned paleontologist and r...
Chinese scientists discover new evidence of feather evolution.
The December 8, 2000 issue of the prestigious American scientific journal *Science* will publish a research paper by Zh...
Where is the Paleontological Museum of China located?
Looking south from the T-junction between the Beijing Planetarium and the Beijing Zoo, west of the Beijing Planetarium,...
The systematic relationship between animals and plants and its historical origins
According to the five-kingdom classification system of organisms, plants and animals, as two higher-level classificatio...
What is a paleontology museum?
As the name suggests, paleontology museums are museums that exhibit ancient organisms. So, what are paleontology? As th...
Fossil sites and physical characteristics of Mamenchisaurus
Mamenchisaurus is one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs discovered in China to date. A standard tennis court is 23.77 m...
Fossil sites and physical characteristics of ankylosaurs
Ankylosaurus was named in 1908 and primarily inhabited Montana in the United States, Mexico, and Bolivia in South Ameri...
