Xu Xing (paleontologist)

Xing was born in Xinjiang, China, in 1969. A graduate from the department of geology of Peking University, he is currently a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He had originally planned to become an economist. However, he was assigned to the department of geology by the Chinese authorities.{{cite web | url = https://read01.com/6nzMDj.html | title = 徐星：穿越時光恐龍緣 | author = 張晶晶 | work = 中國科學報 | date = August 1, 2014 | language = zh | access-date = May 18, 2018 | archive-date = September 2, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190902125148/https://read01.com/6nzMDj.html | url-status = live }} He graduated in 1995, and claims inspiration from Roy Chapman Andrews.{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-06-09-xu-dinosaurs_N.htm|title=Forget Indiana Jones: Dinosaur hunter Xu digs it|first=Calum|last=MacLeod|work=USA Today|date=9 June 2008|access-date=2015-05-01|archive-date=2017-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613151336/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-06-09-xu-dinosaurs_N.htm|url-status=live}}

Among Xu's paleontological contributions have been discovery and analysis of dinosaur fossils with avian characteristics, and development of theories in regarding the evolution of feathers.{{cite journal | last1 = Xu | first1 = Xing | year = 2006 | title = Feathered dinosaurs from China and the evolution of major avian characters | journal = Integrative Zoology | volume = 1 | issue = 1| pages = 4–11 | doi = 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2006.00004.x | pmid = 21395983 | doi-access = free }} In 2024, Xu became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}

• {{cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=Xing|last2=Norell|first2=Mark A|author-link2=Mark Norell|last3=Kuang|first3=Xuewen|last4=Wang|first4=Xiaolin|last5=Zhao|first5=Qi|last6=Jia|first6=Chengkai|display-authors=2|year=2004|title=Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids|url=http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/geo308/FoldersOnServer/2004/nature02855.pdf|journal=Nature|volume=431|issue=7009|pages=680–684|doi=10.1038/nature02855|pmid=15470426|bibcode=2004Natur.431..680X|s2cid=4381777|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402152750/http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/geo308/FoldersOnServer/2004/nature02855.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-02}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=Xing|author-link5=Gregory M. Erickson|last2=Clark|first2=James M|last3=Forster|first3=Catherine A|author-link3=Catherine Forster|last4=Norell|first4=Mark A|last5=Erickson|first5=Gregory M|last6=Eberth|first6=David A|last7=Jia|first7=Chengkai|last8=Zhao|first8=Qi|display-authors=3|year=2006|title=A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China|url=http://lesdinos.free.fr/Ty160.pdf|journal=Nature|volume=9|issue=7077|pages=715–718|doi=10.1038/nature04511|pmid=16467836|bibcode=2006Natur.439..715X|s2cid=4424849}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=Xing|last2=Tan|first2=Qingwei|last3=Wang|first3=Jianmin|last4=Zhao|first4=Xijin|last5=Tan|first5=Lin|display-authors=1|year=2007|title=A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China|url=http://dinochecker.greatsage.net/papers/gigantoraptor_Xing_Xu_et_al_2007.pdf|journal=Nature|volume=447|issue=7146|pages=844–847|doi=10.1038/nature05849|pmid=17565365|bibcode=2007Natur.447..844X|s2cid=6649123}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=Xing|last2=Zheng|first2=Xiaoting|last3=You|first3=Hailu|display-authors=1|year=2009|title=A new feather type in a nonavian theropod and the early evolution of feathers|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=106|issue=3|pages=832–834|doi=10.1073/pnas.0810055106|pmid=19139401|pmc=2630069|doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=X.|last2=Wang|first2=K.|last3=Zhang|first3=K.|last4=Ma|first4=Q.|last5=Xing|first5=L.|last6=Sullivan|first6=C.|last7=Hu|first7=D.|last8=Cheng|first8=S.|last9=Wang|first9=S.|display-authors=1|year=2012|title=A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China|url=http://www.xinglida.net/pdf/Xu_et_al_2012_Yutyrannus.pdf|journal=Nature|volume=484|issue=7392|pages=92–95|doi=10.1038/nature10906|pmid=22481363|bibcode=2012Natur.484...92X|s2cid=29689629|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417134949/http://www.xinglida.net/pdf/Xu_et_al_2012_Yutyrannus.pdf|archive-date=April 17, 2012}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Xu|first1=Xing|last2=Zheng|first2=Xiaoting|last3=Sullivan|first3=Corwin|last4=Wang|first4=Xiaoli|last5=Xing|first5=Lida|last6=Wang|first6=Yan|last7=Zhang|first7=Xiaomei|last8=O’Connor|first8=Jingmai K.|last9=Zhang|first9=Fucheng|last10=Pan|first10=Yanhong|display-authors=1|year=2015|title=A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14423|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=521|issue=7550|pages=70–73|doi=10.1038/nature14423|issn=1476-4687|pmid=25924069|bibcode=2015Natur.521...70X|s2cid=205243599}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192829/http://en.cug.edu.cn/cug/Content.asp?ID=5234&ClassID=459 Famous Expert Forum ( 2008-14): Research Fellow Xu Xing’s Academic Report]

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