Found in roughly 160-million-year-old rocks in North China, the Yanliao Biota is a diverse array of beautifully preserved fossils, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs and even early mammals. But it ...

True polar wander may be behind the demise of northern China's array of life known as the Yanliao Biota. This die-off set the stage for a new jumble of creatures to arise known as the Jehol ...

As of now, no definitive avialans have been reported except from the Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota in northeast China (166–159 million years ago; Ma) and the slightly younger German ...

Similar phenomena were observed in the preceding Yanliao Biota, which had relatively fewer fossils but still showed evidence of volcanic P supply.

Given that researchers have found many fossils of feathered dinosaurs (including from the Yanliao Biota), perhaps pterosaurs and dinosaurs shared an ancient, common ancestor that had feathers, the ...

However, the lamprey fossils found in the Yanliao Biota not only remain intact, but most importantly, their suckers and teeth are preserved in almost three-dimensional states, providing rare and ...

As of now, no definitive avialans have been reported except from the Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota in northeast China (166–159 million years ago; Ma) and the slightly younger German ...

China's Yanliao Biota, an assembly of fossils preserved in northeastern China dating from the Middle to Late Jurassic (174 to 145 million years ago), offers an important window into the evolution ...

The two Kunpengopterus specimens, found in northeast China's Yanliao Biota, were from the Late Jurassic period, per the study.

The collaboration on material from the Yanliao Biota between Chinese and Brazilian paleontologists dates back to 2009 when they jointly named the Wukongopteridae. Since then, ...