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Cats are one of the most popular internet celebrity animals on Western social networking sites, and they are also pets that many people are keen to keep. They are well-behaved elves, fickle and curious. They are cute, in···
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People who like to raise cats definitely hope that their pet cats can live a long and healthy life and stay with them for a few more years. But what is the natural lifespan of a cat? How many years did the world's oldest···
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The annual Cat Awards, run by UK animal charity Cats Protection, celebrates all things cat-related. Nominated cats are not only lovable, but also help their owners' lives in a variety of ways. Let’s take a look at some ···
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If your dog has lived vigorously for 10 years, it is generally believed that the dog has reached old age, which is equivalent to the rare 70 years of human beings. This conversion factor, that is, one year of dog life is···
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There is growing evidence that octopuses and other similar creatures are sentient. Heather Browning, a postdoctoral fellow in animal perception and welfare at the London School of Economics, noted in an article that “oc···
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The Galapagos tortoise is one of the largest living tortoises and is endemic to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. Adult tortoises are 1.5 meters long, with an average weight of 175 kilograms, and the highest recorded wei···
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The asteroid hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs and destroyed most species on the earth, but mammals survived this catastrophe. So how did these small and fragile creatures, including our mammalian ancestors, surv···
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It's a manic moment - a swarm of male cactus bees enveloping a female bee. Suspense: In this love-filled melee, who will be the lucky one to mate with her? This work by Karine Aigner won the overall championship in the 2···
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A giant panda named Yaya has been a trending topic on Chinese social media over the past few weeks. The female giant panda, now living in the United States, appears to be in worrying health, with many Chinese netizens ca···
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Legend has it that even among the bird family, chickens are the dull ones. They are just a group of walking meat factories whose only ability is to lay eggs. Fact: The world's most common bird is actually very intelligen···
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The team behind the BBC documentary Blue Planet II said there was rarely a time when no plastic was visible during filming at sea. The third episode of the film focuses on how plastic affects marine life. Production assi···
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British photographer Tim Flach spent two years taking portraits of endangered animals all over the world and selected 180 of them into a book called "Endangered." But are it just animals that are endangered? Japanese fir···
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What would daily human life be like without numbers? hard to imagine. What about the animal world? Research over the past few decades has found that animals have the same "number sense" as humans and can use th···
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A latest British natural science research found that the reason why modern snakes can successfully survive and reproduce around the world must be thanks to the meteorite, an alien object that hit the earth 66 million yea···
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On May 19, 2016, Current Biology published the research results of Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min’s research group at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and col···
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"Scientific Reports" published on May 24, 2016 reported a new genus and species of mammals discovered in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota - Luo's Late Teeth - jointly researched by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontolog···
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On June 3, 2016, the American magazine "ScienceAdvances" published online the latest research results of Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min's research group at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,···
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Modern argali sheep (Ovis) are widely distributed in a series of mountain ranges such as the Caucasus, Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, Tianshan-Altai Mountains, Eastern Siberia, and the Rocky Mountains of North America. In E···
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Associate researcher Wang Yuan of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with the research team of Zhang Hanwen, a doctoral student at the University of ···
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Among the elephantoids, the main group of proboscis, the development of a pair of huge upper incisors (ivory) has become a distinctive feature of this group. This structure is often used as a feeding tool for individuals···
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Bearded vultures and vultures are collectively known as Old World vultures, although they do not form a sister group within the order Accipiliformes. Abundant fossil evidence shows that Old World vultures were widely dis···
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The joint team of Zhu Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden has made a major breakthrough in the field of r···
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Recently, researcher Xu Guanghui of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and his graduate students Ma Xinying and Ren Yi published the latest research results on Triassic fishes in Yunnan and Guizhou in the American ···
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The steppe weasel Lyncodontini is a small mustelid that is now only distributed in South America. However, during the Quaternary period, the steppe weasel once spread across Eurasia, especially the European sea otter mar···
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