The Yixian formation, located in what is now Liaoning Province, situated on China’s North-East coast, is a palaeontologist’s ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...

Here’s how it works. For decades, the Yixian Formation was known as the "Pompeii" of the dinosaur world. Anan early Cretaceous formation in northeast China, it holds some of the best preserved ...

For decades, a few hundred miles northeast of Beijing, the Yixian Formation has offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils dating back to the early Cretaceous (about 145 to 66 ...

This explanation compared the Yixian fossils' preservation to how thousands of Romans were buried by ash at Pompeii. However, the new study challenges this volcanic catastrophe theory. According ...

The Yixian Formation fossils come in two basic varieties: intact, perfectly articulated 3D skeletons from deposits formed mainly on land, and flattened but highly detailed carcasses found in lake ...

One of the most extraordinary fossil beds of Cretaceous creatures in the world formed about 125 million years ago, in what’s now northeastern China. Researchers have thought that the diverse ...

This was a herd animal, and it's the most commonly found fossil in the Lujiatun Member of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. This particular Psittacosaurus was approximately 6.5–10 ...

Artist's rendition of a Psittacosaurus dinosaur with babies being hunted by Repenomamus, a mammal. One fossil assemblage from the Yixian Formation preserved the remains of these species in mortal ...

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism ...