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07-01 / 2024
Research Highlights from Asia - A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal
In a groundbreaking discovery, the team of Prof. Yuan Xunlai and Dr Bin Wan, Dr Xiaopeng Wang from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Prof. Shuhai Xiao from Virginia Tech University have unearthed a fascinating relic ...
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02-18 / 2022
"The impact of Chinese palaeontology on evolutionary research" published by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Online
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Bcompiled and edited by Xiaoya Ma, Guangxu Wang and Min Wang has now been published online (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/377/1847).To celebrate over 100 years of achievements...
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01-18 / 2022
The first show of direct linkage between intensified volcanism and immediate weathering
Intensive volcanism has been considered a major driver of environmental/climatic changes throughout Earth history, including global warming due to excessive volcanogenic CO2 emission, acidification, ozone depletion etc., which in turn h...
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12-15 / 2021
Dinosaur-age Fossils Provide New Insights into Origin of Flowering Plants
Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been a mystery since the earliest days of evolutionary thought.Angiosperm flowers are hugely diverse. The ke...
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02-26 / 2021
Kylinxia: A 520-million-year-old chimeric fossil uncovering the origin of arthropods
The discovery of a shrimp-like fossil named Kylinxia provides important insights into the early evolutionary history of arthropods, finds new study led by paleontologists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese A...
