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 ...

This explanation compared the Yixian fossils' preservation to how thousands of Romans were buried by ash at Pompeii. However, ...

The Yixian formation, located in what is now Liaoning Province, situated on China’s North-East coast, is a palaeontologist’s paradise. First investigated by Japanese scientists in 1933 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Newly discovered Ginkgo species from the Lower Cretaceous Zhuanchengzhi Bed of the Yixian Formation, China. The associated leaves (Fig. 1b, and see supplementary information) are small ...

Discovered in the Yixian formation in north-eastern China, all 31 fossilised dinosaurs were members of a herbivore species called Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis. This fossil specimen was originally ...

Called Eoconfuciusornis, it is a missing link between the oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx, and more advanced birds that have been discovered in the Yixian geological formation in China.