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The movie "Dawn for the Planet of the Apes" is a hit all over the world. The protagonist, the chimpanzee "Caesar", not only possesses human intelligence and emotions, but can also speak and communicate with others. But i···
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在水族宠物市场上，有一种长相奇特，“脸颊”两旁各长三支羽状的“角”的小动物伏在水里，人们常叫它“六角恐龙”。其实，它们的真名是墨西哥钝口螈（Ambystoma mexicanum）也叫美西螈，墨西哥的特有物种。羽状的“角”是它们的外鳃，可以···
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Zhu Min's team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported in the "Nature Scientific Reports" published on June 12 that the largest vertebrate in the Siluria···
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The ancient spine is located in a new type of pterosaur found in the famous Jehol Biota in the western Liaoning region of my country about 120 million years ago - Ikrandraco avatar gen.et sp.nov. The top of the skull of ···
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Some complex behaviors in biological evolution are difficult to observe in fossil evidence. Parental care (referring to the protection and feeding of offspring by parents) is an important adaptive behavior in the evoluti···
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Scientists have discovered partial bones and tusks of a Columbian mammoth in Idaho, USA. They believe that a complete mammoth skeleton may be buried here, which would be a very rare discovery. Experts estimate that this ···
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It was recently learned that researcher Yin Jianqiang and others from the Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Biological Resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered and named a new planktonic ostracod sp···
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In addition to the production of methane from nature, such as oceans, permafrost and some wetlands, human activities are its largest source. The main human activities that contribute to methane emissions are livestock fa···
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From childhood to adulthood, the meat we eat most is pork. Pigs are the well-deserved king of meat animals in the hearts of urban and rural residents in my country. Pork is rich in protein, which supports growth and deve···
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1. Clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa The quantity is rare. It is an endangered species, a national Class I key protected wild animal, and is listed in CITES Appendix I species. It inhabits tropical and subtropical evergr···
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The Brazilian turtle, also known as the Brazilian red-eared turtle, is named because there are two thick red stripes on both sides of the back of its head. Most species are found in Brazil. The Brazilian turtle is a worl···
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Our country is one of the earliest countries in the world to utilize fish. Fish has long been used as food and has become an important dependence for people's survival. Since ancient times, people have had an indissolubl···
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If you have watched the movie "Rio", you will definitely have an impression of the army of monkey thieves in it: the monkey uses the stolen gold watch as a belt to pretend to be rich. This scene graphically illustrates t···
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The power of insect muscles often surprises us. For example, Asian weaver ants can "mouth" objects that are 100 times heavier than their own weight; fleas can jump to heights that are 100 times higher than their own heig···
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Researcher Deng Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others recently published in the international journal Zootaxa a new species of Eostylopsus d···
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When it comes to drawing the tree of life, the most important difference between humans and sharks is not limbs and fins, or even lungs and gills. All the differences can be boiled down to their bones. Shark bones are ma···
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A research team composed of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Zhejiang Natural History Museum discovered a prehistoric flying fish fossil dating bac···
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China has discovered six quite complete mammal fossils dating to 160 million years ago; and named three new species in two new genera of mythical beasts and fairy beasts, namely Shenshoului (Lu's mythical beast) and Xian···
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Chinese and American researchers said on the 12th that two fossils discovered in northern China showed that early mammals had learned to climb trees and dig holes in the ground during the Jurassic Period, which was domin···
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A Japanese research team reported in the new online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they found that dragonflies have an exceptionally large number of genes related to distinguishing colo···
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Qiao Tuo and others from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported online in the magazine "Alcheringa" about the lungfish from the Lower Devonian ···
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Oase1, a modern human mandible discovered in a cave in Romania in 2002, has a corrected carbon 14 direct dating date of about 37,000-42,000 years ago. It is the earliest early modern mandible in Europe with direct dating···
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Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred for millions of years, but their origins have been explained differently. Causes of pre-human strandings have been attributed to herding behavior, large ocean fronts and ha···
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When comparing plants with animals, people usually tend to think that animals are more powerful and intelligent: because plants are rooted in the earth and cannot move freely and will be eaten by animals. But, is this th···
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