in the southwestern suburbs of Beijing. The climate of that time was warmer and more humid than it is today. Forests and lakes in the area supported large numbers of living creatures. The fossil ...

Beijing Zoo, situated to the west of Beijing ... At present, the zoo houses over 7,000 creatures of 600 different species, including the giant panda, red-crowned crane and Pere David's deer ...

→ Big-headed flying creatures — with spotted bodies ... The park is in Hunan Province and a roughly 1,000-mile drive southwest of Beijing. The new species was identified by its size ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it ...