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09-26 / 2024
Research Highlight from Asia - Ancient Cheese Holds Clues to Human-Microbe Evolutionary Dance
In a groundbreaking study published in Cell, an international team of scientists has peered into the past to reveal the intricate relationship between humans and microorganisms through the analysis of ancient cheese. This discovery not o...
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09-23 / 2024
Research Highlight from Asia - Unraveling the Mystery of Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction: The Role of Mega El Niño
In a groundbreaking study "Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction" was published in the 13 September 2024 issue of Science, an international team of scientists led by Yadong Sun from the China University of Geosciences ...
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07-01 / 2024
Research Highlight from Asia - Unveils the Evolutionary History of Marine Biodiversity Hotspot
A study recently published in Nature has shed light on the Cenozoic history of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA), a region renowned as the global epicenter of marine biodiversity. The research, led by Skye Yunshu Tian from the Univer...
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07-01 / 2024
Research Highlights from Asia - A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal
In a groundbreaking discovery, the team of Prof. Yuan Xunlai and Dr Bin Wan, Dr Xiaopeng Wang from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Prof. Shuhai Xiao from Virginia Tech University have unearthed a fascinating relic ...
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02-18 / 2022
"The impact of Chinese palaeontology on evolutionary research" published by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Online
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Bcompiled and edited by Xiaoya Ma, Guangxu Wang and Min Wang has now been published online (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/377/1847).To celebrate over 100 years of achievements...
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01-18 / 2022
The first show of direct linkage between intensified volcanism and immediate weathering
Intensive volcanism has been considered a major driver of environmental/climatic changes throughout Earth history, including global warming due to excessive volcanogenic CO2 emission, acidification, ozone depletion etc., which in turn h...
