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Considering how diverse snakes are today (nearly 500 genera, about 3,000 named species), we still know very little about their ultimate origins. Apparently, these cold-blooded, slithering, legless creatures evolved from ···
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The Tasmanian tiger is to Australia what the Sasquatch is to North America—a creature often seen by deluded amateurs but never actually seen in captivity. The difference, of course, is that Sasquatch is a complete myth,···
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Humans are not always good at self-control, especially when the things they face seem both rich and mouth-watering. Although species extinctions often have multiple causes, the extinction of some species can be almost di···
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Although humans have existed on Earth for millions of years, our knowledge of ocean and river life is very limited. There are many fascinating and fascinating fish species in the world. These include the arowana, the stu···
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In different eras, animals need different survival abilities to survive. Once upon a time, huge size and ferocious habits were among the most important characteristics of animals. In ancient times, there existed some of ···
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How birds, the descendants of dinosaurs, escaped the mass extinction event 65 million years ago has always been a question that scientists are eager to answer. A large amount of volcanic ash caused by meteorites impactin···
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Scientists recently discovered the fossil of a 6.6-foot-tall (about 2-meter) penguin that lived in prehistoric Antarctica 34 million years ago, and its prototype was taller than most human males today. Paleontologists wo···
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Tsaidamotherium is a medium-sized bovine animal of the order Muskoxen, which lived in the early late Miocene. The shape of the Qaidam beast's horn is very special and complex, and can be called a "horn organ": there is a···
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According to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Staphylinidae belongs to the insect class Coleoptera and is currently the most species-rich family on the earth. It is divided···
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The Academy of Sciences discovered an egg fossil in the Late Cretaceous strata of the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang. The egg fossil is only 4.5cm long, with obvious sharp and blunt ends. The shape is very similar to a bird egg···
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Pterosauria is a unique group of Mesozoic flying reptiles. Early groups of Pterosauria underwent body structure changes, reorganization, adaptive radiation, and replacement, and finally evolved wings midway through their···
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Spain reports that a Spanish archaeologist recently announced that he has discovered the latest traces of ancient human activities in Tanzania, which may be the largest ancient human site in history. It is understood tha···
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In recent years, a large number of basically well-preserved bison (Bison) fossil materials have been discovered in Northeast my country, providing important materials for further research on bison fossils. Researchers fr···
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In the past ten years, a series of skull fossils of Indarctos, Agriotherium and Ursavus have been discovered in the sediments of the Late Miocene Liushu Formation in the Linxia Basin, Gansu. A complete skull of Ursus has···
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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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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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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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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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