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Search:  About Us Research People Cooperation News Education & Training Join Us Societies & Publications Newsletter Resources Links News Events Int'l Cooperation News Upcoming Events Seminar Related News PALAEONEWS   Location:Home > News > Related News Related News   120-million-year old fossil of modern long-horned grasshopper’s ancestor found 29 Oct. 2015, Dispatch Tribunal 　　A Chinese student has discovered 120-million-year old fossil of modern long-horned grasshopper’s ancestor in Yumen in Gansu province, China. 　　The 3-cm section of the insect’s wing was found by Wang He who is doing his post-graduate work at the Nanjing Inst...   Could these dull-looking fossils shake our understanding of evolution to the core? Siberian find pushes back emergence of first vertebrates by 20 MILLION years 1 Oct. 2015, By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE 　　Game changer? Fossilised remains dating back more than 500 million years are being hailed as a significant advance in 'our understanding of the evolution of animals' 　　The first vertebrates lived on Earth some 20 million years earlier than previou...   First skeletal animals on Earth 'lived in Siberia 20 million years earlier than previously thought' 18 Sep. 2015, The Siberian Time 　　The summer expedition to Siberia 　　A discovery of the fossilised remains of vertebrates believed to be more than 500 million years old may shatter existing theories of the development of skeletal creatures. 　　The find was made by a Russian-Chinese-British e...   Brood Care In Insects Is At Least 100 Million Years Old 9 Apr. 2015, Asian Scientist Magazine 　　AsianScientist (Apr. 9, 2015) - A female insect and her brood trapped in amber 100 million years ago shed light on the origins of offspring care in insects. The study documenting these findings has been published in eLife. Many animals care for and protec...   Controversy Blooms Over Earliest Flower Fossil By Becky Oskin, 9 Apr. 2015, Live Science 　　A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. 　　However, not everyone agrees that the fossil represents an actual flower or that it is as old as t...   It turns out 100 million year-old insects were caring mothers carrying their young By Gordon Hunt, 31 Mar. 2015, Silicon Republic 　　The world’s earliest known brooding insect mother has been discovered trapped in amber, dated back at least 100 million years to the land of the dinosaurs. 　　Apparently dying some time during the Mesozoic era, the insect – named Wathondara k...

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