Eggshell colouration plays a vital role in avian reproductive strategies by influencing both the thermoregulatory properties and the structural integrity of eggs. Recent studies indicate that ...
In an article published online March 17 in Nature, researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shandong Tianyu Museum ...
What really did come first--the chicken or the egg? Birds' reproductive biology is dramatically different from that of any other living vertebrates, and ornithologists and paleontologists have long ...
A team of scientists led by Alida Bailleul and Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first fossil ...