Auroraceratops, a bipedal dinosaur that lived roughly 115 million years ago, has been newly described by paleontologists. More than 80 individuals of this species have been found in China’s Gansu …read more Source:: Science
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Origins of cannabis smoking
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•A chemical residue study of incense burners from ancient burials at high elevations in western China has revealed psychoactive cannabinoids. The finding provides some of the earliest evidence for the …read more Source:: Science
Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought
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•The discovery in China of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic shakes up widely accepted theories of plant evolution. …read more Source:: Science
The teeth of Changchunsaurus: Rare insight into ornithopod dinosaur tooth evolution
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•The teeth of Changchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of China, represent an important and poorly-known stage in the evolution of ornithopod dentition, according to a study. …read more Source:: Science
MongoDB’s new license won’t solve its China problem
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•By Matt Asay MongoDB’s shift away from the Affero GPL to its homegrown Server-Side Public License (SSPL) can be cast as a way to clarify what open source means in the …read more Source:: OpenSource
84 highly endangered amur leopards remain in China and Russia
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•Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in …read more Source:: Science
New gibbon genus discovered in ancient Chinese tomb
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•Bones of an entirely new but already extinct genus of gibbon have been discovered in China, revealing the magnitude of human-caused extinction of primates. …read more Source:: Science
New research reveals plant wonderland inside China’s caves
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•Over five years (2009-2014) researchers have delved into the depths of some of China’s most unexplored and unknown caves in the largest ever study on cave floras. Surveying over 60 …read more Source:: Science
H7N9 influenza is both lethal and transmissible in animal model for flu
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•In 2013, an influenza virus began circulating among poultry in China. It caused several waves of human infection and as of late July 2017, nearly 1,600 people had tested positive …read more Source:: Science
Livestock grazing harming giant panda habitat
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•One third of the giant panda habitat in China’s Wanglang National Nature Reserve has been degraded and lost to livestock grazing, a new study finds. Livestock numbers in the park …read more Source:: Science