13-07-26 片段对白 Sean: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Hank: The Mysterious Island. Kalani: What is this place? Gabato: Whoa! This island, it shrunk us! Hank: Or turned us into giants? Sean, what does Verne say about this? Sean: It's one of the first la...

13-06-24 As temperatures go up, bison get smaller. Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University, examined how climate change during the next 50 years will affect grazing（放牧） animals such as bison and c...

13-06-08 A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest. One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I...

13-05-28 The accelerating disappearance of Earth's species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind, warns the founding Chair of a new global organization created t...

13-05-20 New research has revealed that the evolution of the complex, weight-bearing hips of walking animals from the basic hips of fish was a much simpler process than previously thought. Tetrapods（四肢动物） , or four-legged animals, first stepped onto la...

13-05-14 The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically（自相矛盾地） , one of the least understood. The animal's huge size and global range make its movements and behavior hard to study. A carcass（尸体，残骸） t...

13-05-13 Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching...

13-05-13 More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research from the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change loo...

13-05-08 For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet（被单，床罩） of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperature...

13-04-23 Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding...