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 ...

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

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

In the heart of Yunnan province, China, paleontologists have unveiled an incredible chapter in Earth's prehistoric history. A massive dinosaur skull unearthed in the Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark ...

It seems there was a mass diversification in pterosaur morphologies between the Lower and Middle Jurassic. As we adjust our thinking on pterosaur evolution, there could well be more well-preserved ...

Outside the United States, more than 950 cases of H5N1 bird flu have been reported to the World Health Organization ... China—saw a faster rate of viral evolution compared to those where ...

In our modern world, accessing food and avoiding disease is a lot easier than it was throughout much of human history. The researchers describe in the paper how they analyzed World Health ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single ... suggesting the world is driven toward a state of minimal energy, the most efficient output ...

The WEF said its partnership with India dates back more than 40 years. Over the past four decades, this relationship has developed into a strong, multifaceted and meaningful collaboration with the ...

Moana 2 crossed the $1 billion milestone at the worldwide box office this weekend. It has beaten Jurassic World Dominion as one of the top 10 highest-grossing films post-COVID. Scroll below for ...