Commonly known as mud flies and fish flies, there are less than 300 known species in the world. They are mostly found near streams or other cool, moist environments, feeding on nectar and soft-bodied insects. The larvae are aquatic, found in lakes and streams, and prey on small aquatic animal...
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 “octopus minds may be very different from human minds, but only by trying to...
There has been endless discussion about whether dragons really existed. It is difficult to answer the question whether there are dragons, but there are indeed some animals in the world that are similar to dragons, either in part or in whole. For example, the hexagonal arowana we are going to...
On the morning of November 30, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province promoted biodiversity protection. A press conference was held at the Municipal Administrative Center. At the meeting, it was announced that a new freshwater fish species had been discovered in Lishui City - Oujiang small swim bladd...
This question sounds outrageous. Fish live in water and can breathe in water, so how can they drown in water? To understand this problem, we must first study what "drowning" means. The concept of drowning Drowning, as we often call it, refers to death caused by...
Several rare blind fish have been discovered in dark underground caves in southwest China. The largest body length of these blind fish is less than 10 centimeters, and their appearance is very strange: the slender body is pink and transparent, and the spine and internal organs in its body can be cle...
Ancient fish that lived 436 million years ago swam flexibly in the ancient ocean. This was restored by Chinese researchers based on a batch of fish fossil specimens discovered in the Chongqing Special Buried Fossil Library and the Guizhou Shiqian Fossil Library. scene. Among the newly discovered fos...
Eight million years ago, soft, boneless creatures first evolved into fish with internal skeletons. Fish then evolved into amphibians that walked on land, and then evolved into reptiles. One of these reptiles evolved into archosaurs. The earliest dinosaurs were small, bipe...
Ghost fish, also called vampire fish, are found in northern Myanmar and are estimated to have thrived on the earth for nearly 100 million years. It is nicknamed the "vampire fish" because of its sharp teeth and resemblance to the vampires in European legends. This fish is about 17 mm long and...
Zhu Min’s team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has made new progress in the field of early vertebrate animal research. On March 8, the magazine "PLOS ONE" reported the latest scientific research results of Dr. Chu Bulan and other...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a vast territory and high terrain, and is known as the "Roof of the World". The formation of the Tibetan Plateau was caused by the collision of the Indian and Asian plates (about 50 million years ago). However, scientists have very different understandings of how...
On August 30, a scientific research team composed of researcher Xu Guanghui from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researchers from many research institutions in the UK and the United States published a paper in...
"Nature" (Nature) sub-journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution" (Nature Ecology & Evolution) published online on September 4, Zhu Min's team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the fish landing New progress in t...
Lu Jing and others from Zhu Min’s team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with scholars from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the University of Michigan in the United States, have created a new bas...
Recently, PLoS ONE reported online that Platylomaspis serratus gen. et sp. nov., the earliest multi-branched fish discovered in the Silurian System of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, will The origin of multibranched fishes advanced from the Early Devonian to the Silurian Landoverian, abou...
In July this year, in an artificial lake in the Central Park of Ruzhou City, Pingdingshan, Henan, boaters discovered a strange huge figure swimming in the lake. It was about 1 meter long, with a very long mouth, and Sharp teeth are vaguely visible in its mouth, and its temperament is very ferocious....
Human lifespan is actually only a handful of times and is very short. Compared with many animals, human life is undoubtedly much shorter. Today, let us take a look at the 5 animals with the longest lifespan on earth. Even the third-placed animal can live up to 500 years!...
There are so many types of marine animals with different shapes. How much do children know? Below, the editor of Animal House has compiled some relevant knowledge about marine animals for you. I hope you will like it. 1. The smallest sea crab--the bean crab is a small crab that lives in shallow seas. The bean crab is 3.8─4.2 mm long, only as big as a grain of rice. It can be called a dwarf among crabs. It is the smallest crab in the world. It is also similar to red adzuki beans, so it is called ...
1. African Elephant The African elephant is the largest mammal on land. Male and female are dimorphic (male and female have different body shapes or physical characteristics). An adult African male elephant is taller than 3.5 meters, and can reach up to 4.1 meters. Weighing approximately 2.7 to 6 tons, females are smaller than males, with the heaviest recorded being 13.5 tons. They can live in a variety of natural environments from sea level to 5,000 meters above sea level, including forests, op...
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