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Some species of pterosaurs flew by flapping their wings while others soared like vultures, demonstrates a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. It has long been debated whether the largest pterosaurs could fly at...
Extensive geologic evidence of ancient volcanic activity can be found on the moon, but how long this volcanism persisted has been unclear. However, Prof. Li Qiuli's Lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the...

Was this the heaviest animal on Earth?

Scientists have identified a new candidate for the heaviest ever animal on Planet Earth. It's an ancient, long-extinct whale that would have tipped the scales...

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest...

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