News articles tagged with 'China' (Page 17)
Primates in peril
— 27 Oct 2007 07:38 | BiologyMankind's closest living relatives - the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates - are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade…
Chinese new mission to the Moon
— 24 Oct 2007 21:40 | AstronomyA bold new mission to the Moon was launched today by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Chang'e-1 blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan, atop…
The earliest crustacean
— 3 Oct 2007 17:00 | Geology and palaeontologyFossils of a new species obtained from 520 million year old Lower Cambrian rocks in Yunnan Province of China represent the earliest known true representatives of the Crustacea, the…
Scientists fear rare dolphin driven to extinction by human activities
— 12 Sep 2007 14:08 | EnvironmentAn international research team, including biologists from NOAA Fisheries Service, has reported in an online scientific journal that it had failed to find a single Yangtze River dolphin,…
Rare dolphin spotted in the Yangtze River
— 1 Sep 2007 15:16 | BiologyThe reported sighting of a Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, means there is still a chance to protect cetaceans in the Yangtze from extinction. The Chinese media reported that a local…
Remains of earliest giant panda discovered
— 19 Jun 2007 00:02 | Geology and palaeontologyAlthough it may sound like an oxymoron, a University of Iowa anthropologist and his colleagues report the first discovery of a skull from a pygmy-sized giant panda - the earliest-known…
Viable tiger populations, tiger trade incompatible
— 5 Jun 2007 17:39 | EnvironmentIn the cover story of this month's BioScience journal, leading tiger experts warn that if tigers are to survive, governments must stop all trade in tiger products from wild and captive-bred…
An early modern human from China
— 3 Apr 2007 00:30 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers at Washington University in St Louis and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human…
New mammal from Mesozoic Era discovered
— 15 Mar 2007 02:52 | Geology and palaeontologyAn international team of American and Chinese palaeontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei…