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In 1928, the famous American geological paleontologist Professor Gripp published a scientific masterpiece - "The Geological History of China". In this book, he proposed the term "Jehol Biota" for the first time to repres···
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In 1861, the oldest bird fossil was discovered in the Upper Jurassic limestone (a limestone formation formed in the late Jurassic) in Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. Not only were the bones preserved, but there were also tr···
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In the vast deep sea, there must be many secrets that are currently unknown to mankind, which has also attracted the continued attention of many scientists. News on April 3, according to media reports, scientists photogr···
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Complete map of the geological end table (main biological evolution)
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The Tibetan antelope, whose scientific name is Tibetan antelope, is the only species of the genus Tibetan antelope in the order Artiodactyla, Bovidae, subfamily Antelope. The earliest scientific description of the Tibeta···
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Blue sheep (scientific name: Pseudois nayaur) is a herbivorous mountain mammal, belonging to the family Bovidae and genus Blue sheep. It is also known as cliff sheep, stone sheep, green sheep, blue sheep, Chinese blue sh···
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The Tibetan wild ass (scientific name: Equus kiang; Tibetan: རྐྱང་།, Wiley transliteration: khyang), also known as the Tibetan wild ass, is a large equid mammal that is distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at a···
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Argali sheep (scientific name Ovis ammon), also known as big-headed sheep and bighorn sheep in ancient times, is a wild sheep that lives on the Central Asian plateau and is also the largest sheep. According to different ···
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The Zada Basin is located in the Xiangquan River Basin in the west of the Tibet Autonomous Region, with an altitude of 3,700 to 4,500 meters. It is administratively under the jurisdiction of the Ngari Prefecture. The Xia···
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Many people know about the camel, known as the ship of the desert, but they may not necessarily know about the yak, known as the ship of the plateau. The altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is higher than 3,000 meters.···
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In order to understand and evaluate the phylogenetic position of the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros within the rhinoceros subfamily, Deng Tao et al. analyzed a group containing 17 species of Rhinoceros, including all 5 living···
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The Tibetan Woolly Rhinoceros has the typical characteristics of the Woolly Rhinoceros: such as a slender skull, an ossified nasal septum, a broad and flat nasal horn base, a downwardly inclined nasal bone, an elevated a···
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The glacial fauna has long been recognized to be closely related to the global cooling events of the Pleistocene. The animals in it also showed adaptations to cold environments, such as being huge, covered in long hair, ···
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The most primitive woolly rhinoceros in the world from the Pliocene Epoch in Tibet (about 3.7 million years ago) provides important evidence to solve the mystery of the evolution of this type of animal. This batch of pre···
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Ducks are usually considered to be low-energy animals. Apart from being able to swim, their survival skills seem to be mediocre. However, perhaps due to the pressure of the environment, the arctic eider ducks seem to hav···
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In the Arctic, if we were to choose a runner-up based solely on flight distance, it would be the golden plover. The golden plover is named after the golden spots on its back. This kind of bird is large in body and likes ···
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In Antarctica, the most impressive animal is naturally the penguin. In the Arctic, it is not the polar bears that are awe-inspiring, but the Arctic terns. Although penguins are friendly and naive, they look a little sill···
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It is estimated that there are more than 9,000 species of birds on the earth, divided into 27 orders and more than 160 families. So, what species of birds are associated with the Arctic? According to statistics, there ar···
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Arctic cod is distributed throughout the Arctic and is a typical cold-water fish. When the temperature exceeds 5°C, they disappear. It is a small and medium-sized fish with a maximum body length of up to 36 cm. It is on···
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There are 18 species of seals in the world, 7 species in the Arctic and 4 species in the Antarctic. But in terms of numbers, there are not as many Arctic seals as there are in Antarctica. All seals in the world have a sp···
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Walrus, as the name suggests, is an elephant in the sea. It has a huge body, thick and wrinkled skin, sparse hard body hair, small eyes, and poor vision. It is 3 to 4 meters long, weighs about 1,300 kilograms, and has tw···
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From a distance, the narwhal looks like a long horn on its head, hence the name narwhal. The "horn" of the narwhal is actually a giant tooth. Judging from its embryonic development, the narwhal has a total of 16 teeth. H···
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For the Eskimos, beluga whales are also very important, not only because their meat is delicious, but their oil is not only used to light lamps, but also releases a lot of heat to keep simple igloos warm. In addition, th···
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Whaling is the core of Eskimo culture. The history of the Eskimos is inseparable from whaling. In other words, they rely on whales in Arctic waters to survive. What the Eskimos call whaling mainly refers to the bowhead w···
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