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In the aquarium, you will be dazzled by the colorful fish and various other aquatic animals. However, you will definitely stop in front of some brightly colored five-pointed star-like animals for a long time, because the···
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Molluscs are a category with a very large number and variety of invertebrates. There are 120,000 modern species and fossil species that have been discovered, making them the second largest category in the animal kingdom ···
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Algae are the lower types of the plant kingdom. There are many kinds of them, with an estimated 18,000 species, belonging to green algae, diatoms, golden algae, red algae and brown algae. They are widely distributed in v···
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Bryos and mosses in plants are two different things! They are a type of primitive aquatic group animals with tiny individuals. However, their body structure is more evolved than that of worms, with three germ layers and ···
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Brachiopods are a large group of shelled invertebrates that live on the seabed. Their two-valved shells are of different sizes, and their shells are made of calcium or chitin. Brachiopods spend a few days to two weeks in···
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More than 300 years ago in the 18th century, the systematic classification of biology was still very imperfect. Lin Nai, a famous taxonomist at that time, collectively called those "bugs" with roughly elongated bodies, l···
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In addition to corals, coelenterates also include polyps and jellyfish. Both coelenterates and sponges are diploblasts, but they are more advanced than sponges because they already have the division of labor between nerv···
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There are a group of beautiful islands in the mainland of the motherland and south of Hainan Island, scattered like jade beads in the South China Sea. Their names have been called Dongsha Islands, Xisha Islands, Zhongsha···
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Archaeocybeans appeared in the early Cambrian period and were extinct by the Jurassic. There is no modern creature that can be directly compared with them. In addition, their bones have various shapes, so scientists stil···
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Sponges are the simplest structure and the most primitive form among multicellular animals. They have appeared before the Cambrian and have continued to thrive until modern times. Sponges evolved from single-celled anima···
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Radiolarians and foraminifera are both protozoa, and they belong to the phylum Protozoa of Sarcopodia. In addition to Sarcopoda, protozoa include Flagellates, Ciliates, and Sporozoa. Protozoa are the lowest animals in th···
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Foraminifera are a type of tiny single-cell protozoa with pseudopods. Most of them have a hard shell made of minerals. There are many openings in the shell and many small holes in the shell wall. The body of a foraminife···
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Radiolarians are single-celled protozoa floating in the ocean. They are named after their radially arranged thread-like pseudopods. Protozoa are the lowest type of animals, and each individual is composed of only one cel···
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the German scientist Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift based on the outlines of the continents on the earth as well as stratigraphic and paleontological data. He belie···
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Traces of the activities of ancient organisms and their relics preserved in rock formations are called trace fossils. Among them, the relics of ancient organisms can become relic fossils. dinosaur footprints Trace fossil···
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Paleontologists call the impressions and replicas of paleontological remains left in rock formations or surrounding rocks called cast fossils. They can be divided into five types based on their relationship with the surr···
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Solid fossils are fossils formed by preserving all or part of the paleontological remains themselves (especially the hard parts). mosquito in amber Under particularly suitable circumstances that can avoid air oxidation a···
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In layman's terms, fossils are stones that are the remains or remains of creatures that lived in the distant past. During the long geological time, countless creatures have lived on the earth. Many of the remains of thes···
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When people think of bacteria, the first thing that people think of are probably those pathogenic bacteria that cause diseases and destroy lives. Therefore, it is inevitable to talk about bacteria. In fact, pathogenic ba···
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The single Aeolian fossil found in southern Africa is the oldest bacterial fossil discovered by scientists so far, and is also the oldest representative of all paleontological fossils. Eosobacterium is a prokaryotic orga···
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As the name suggests, museums of paleontology are museums that exhibit paleontology. So, what is paleontology? As the name suggests, paleontology is those ancient creatures that have been dead for a long time. So how do ···
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According to the five-kingdom classification system of organisms, plants and animals, as two high-level classification levels of organisms, evolved from another level - some different categories of the kingdom of protist···
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The Chinese Paleozoology Museum is located on the west side of the Beijing Planetarium, at the T-junction between Baishi Bridge and the Zoo. Looking south, you can see a green castle-style building hidden among tall popl···
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The authoritative American scientific journal "Science" published on December 8, 2000 will publish a scientific research paper by Zhang Fucheng and Zhou Zhonghe, young scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleonto···
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