13-11-20 Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes - according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Clim...

13-09-07 A team of researchers has discovered the cranium（颅，头骨） of a fossil ape from Shuitangba, a Miocene site in Yunnan Province, China. The juvenile cranium of the fossil ape Lufengpithecus is significant, according to team member Nina Jablonski, Di...

13-06-05 The first amphibian（两栖动物） to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique living fossil, withou...

13-05-31 Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Professor Brendan Mackey of Griffith University Climate Change Response Program is the lead author of...

13-05-22 Today, the most diverse species of crocodile are found in northern South America and Southeast Asia: As many as six species of alligator（短吻鳄） and four true crocodiles exist, although no more than two or three ever live alongside one another at...

13-03-27 Excess carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere created by the widespread burning of fossil fuels is the major driving force of global climate change, and researchers the world over are looking for new ways to generate power that leaves a smaller carbon...

13-03-14 Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth recovered in southern Siberia confirms that the tooth belonged to one of the oldest known ancestors of the modern dog, and is described in research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE b...

13-03-06 A research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature has identified the first evidence for an extinct giant camel in Canada's High Arctic. The discovery is based on 30 fossil fragments of a leg bone found on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut and represents...

13-03-01 A South Dakota School of Mines Technology assistant professor and his team have discovered a new species of herbivorous（食草的） dinosaur and today published the first fossil evidence of prehistoric crocodyliforms feeding on small dinosaurs. Resear...

13-01-24 Researchers from Wits University, the University of Johannesburg and international scientists announced on January 22, 2012, the discovery of a two million year old fossil fox at the now renowned archaeological site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humank...