Fossils from China's Yunnan Province are reshaping our understanding of early animal evolution, revealing a rich diversity of life forms that existed millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion.

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A Yangtze finless porpoise appears to "smile" at the Baiji Dolphinarium at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang Chaoqun Over the last 1,400 years, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

"In 1997-98 the State Cultural Relics Bureau entrusted the National Museum of Chinese History to sponsor an exhibition on artefects of ancient Chinese science and technology and compile this catalogue ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

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The oldest star chart in the world was made in China more than 2,300 years ago, a hotly debated preprint study finds. Researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories analyzed the "Star ...