A team led by Dr Fu Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, spent nine years sequencing and analyzing the genomes of 127 ancient ...

The researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences unearthed the fossil from a cave at the Hualongdong site in East ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” Discovered almost a century ago from the depths of a Chinese well, the large, ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

“I really feel that we have cleared up some of the mystery surrounding this population,” said Qiaomei Fu, a professor at the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, part of the Chinese ...

Discussion on decolonizing paleoanthropology and the current western-centric focus of the field of study. The Book Haul bringing a mobile bookstore to West Valley. Avian flu affecting Hickman’s ...

The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of distinctive crystalline structures known as eggshell units. Those growing from the ...

A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst.