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01-29 / 2026
Research Highlight from Aisa - Newly Discovered Cambrian “Huayuan Biota” Reveals Life’s Miracle After Mass Extinction
In Huayuan County, Hunan Province, China, a chance event during the construction of a farm road has unlocked Earth’s life secrets buried for 512 million years. The “Huayuan Biota,” discovered by a team led by Academician Zhu Maoyan fr...
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01-28 / 2026
Research Highlight from Asia - Early Vertebrates Had Four Eyes
In a stunning twist to our understanding of evolutionary history, an international team of scientists has revealed that the earliest known vertebrates possessed not two, but four image-forming eyes. The research, centered on exquisitely ...
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09-23 / 2025
Research Highlight from Asia - Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia
A team of international paleontologists has announced the discovery of Zavacephale rinpoche, the oldest and most complete fossil of a dome-headed pachycephalosaur dinosaur, found in Mongolia’s Early Cretaceous Khuren Dukh Formation. The...
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04-20 / 2025
Research Highlight from Asia- New Jurassic Fossil Sheds Light on the Origins of Parasitic Thorny-Headed Worms
A remarkable 165-million-year-old fossil discovered in China has unveiled critical insights into the evolutionary history of acanthocephalans, a group of parasitic worms known as “thorny-headed worms.” Published in Nature, the study d...
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04-02 / 2025
Research Highlight from Asia - China-South Korea collaboration discovers oldest stromatoporoid sponge fossil
The Early Paleozoic research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with South Korean paleontologists, has discovered the oldest known stromatoporoid sponge fossil (dat...
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09-26 / 2024
Research Highlight from Asia - Ancient Cheese Holds Clues to Human-Microbe Evolutionary Dance
In a groundbreaking study published in Cell, an international team of scientists has peered into the past to reveal the intricate relationship between humans and microorganisms through the analysis of ancient cheese. This discovery not o...
