The new bird, Eoconfuciusornis is the oldest known confuciusornithid, a group unique to China. It therefore represents an early stage in bird evolution. Confuciusornithids lived from 120-131 million years ago and include the oldest birds with horny beaks. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A period of intense global warming 55 million years ago was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that split apart Greenland and north-west Europe, scientists believe. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

University of Alberta faculty member Michael Caldwell is talking about the fossils that were found under a ping-pong table after 25 years. One of which was pregnant.
"It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years," Caldwell said. "But I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it's all relative." picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to create a tourist resort in a giant cave used by the former Nationalist government as a secret aircraft factory during World War Two, the official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday. The Haikong cave, in verdant mountains near the southwestern city and wartime capital of Chongqing, will cost about 500 million yuan ($68 million) to develop, the report said. Nothing say... read full post picked by bevissimo 8 months ago

Men of marriageable age now outnumber women by 18 million in China and the sex ratio is set to become more skewed because rural families prefer boys. picked by mitzuzake 10 months ago

Too much lead in the paint sparks largest toy recall in years. Big Bird and Elmo are among the toys called dangerous. picked by hisidea 1 year ago

She got busted when her co-defendant returned their rented minivan with $1 Million worth of cocaine. How can someone forget they had a million dollars worth of cocaine in the van or miss seeing the multiple boxes!? picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. picked by maxriter 1 month ago

A Chinese man lived with a large shard of glass hidden under his right eye for six years. Xiao Zhu, 22, had the eye injured by a beer bottle during a fight six years ago in Jinjiang city. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Since Chen Si began patrolling the Nanjing Bridge in China for suicide attempts four years ago, he has saved 144 lives. picked by Mitzuzake 4 months ago

China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - but illegal - practice of women aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl. picked by suebe 2 years ago

Japanese and Chinese scientists have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species that used to roam the southwestern region of present-day Zhejiang province in east China 100 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

European have been discovered in a cave in Spain, pushing back the beginnings of human occupation of the Continent by up to 400,000 years. The jawbone and teeth found in the Atapuerca hills, near Burgos, have been reliably dated to between 1.1 million and 1.2 million years ago, and probably come from a female who was among the first ancient humans to inhabit Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Analogous to the Earth's current situation, greenhouse warming 55 million years ago was caused by a relatively rapid increase of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. This phase, known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), was studied using sediments that accumulated 55 million years ago on the ocean floor. The new study shows that a large proportion of the greenhouse gases was released ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

China denied the criticism of the United States that accused it of military build-up. The US thinks China is not ready to maintain world peace and stability. A defense white paper showed that China spends less per capita on military forces than the U.S. itself. How ironic. picked by Green84 2 years ago

French fossil hunters have pinned down the age of Toumai, which they contend is the remains of the earliest human ever found, at between 6.8 and 7.2 million years old. The fossil was discovered in the Chadian desert in 2001 and an intense debate ensued over whether the nearly complete cranium, pieces of jawbone and teeth belonged to one of our earliest ancestors. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

The biggest coin-making operation ended up with five years in jail for the counterfeiter who managed to produce 14 million 1 pound fake coins. picked by maxriter 9 months ago

On a small wooded island off southern Mauritius, environmentalists are trying to turn back time to an era before humans ever set foot on the volcanic Indian Ocean archipelago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago