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美国阿肯色州数千只鸟无故死亡
11-01-08 新年前夕，约5000只红翅乌鸫从阿肯色州比比镇的天空中坠落，该州狩猎和渔业委员会称这些鸟曾受过严重的身体创伤，将对死鸟进行进一步的检测以确定原因。 Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year's Eve after mass...
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硬骨鱼体内发现变色控制基因
10-11-01 Researchers led by Vanderbilt's Roger Cone, Ph.D., have discovered a new member of a gene family that has powerful influences on pigmentation（色素淀积） and the regulation of body weight. The gene is the third member of the agouti（刺鼠） family. T...
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七彩神仙鱼像哺乳动物般养育幼鱼
10-10-31 Few fish are famed for their parenting skills. Most species leave their freshly hatched fry（鱼苗） to fend for themselves, but not discus fish（七彩神仙鱼） . Jonathan Buckley from the University of Plymouth, UK, explains that discus fish young fee...
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增词减词
10-10-09 1、增词 增词，从理论上说可以增加任何词，但在什么时候增加什么样的词，才能恰到好处，而不超出一定界限，则需要悉心体会。下面试分析几个译例： 1）A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. 译文一：一本书，紧紧合上，只是一叠纸。 译文二：一本书，如果紧紧...
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新研究有助于保护大西洋鲟鱼
10-10-07 A first-of-its-kind study that tracked the oceanic migrations of adult Atlantic sturgeon（鲟鱼） that were caught and tagged in the Hudson River discovered that these fish move vast distances in the Atlantic Ocean, traveling as far south as Georgia...
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加拿大亚伯达省南部鱼类发生性别偏移
10-07-30 Chemicals present in two rivers in southern Alberta are likely the cause of the feminization（女性化，雌性化） of fish say researchers at the University of Calgary who have published results of their study in the journal Environmental Toxicology and...
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隔离是海洋鱼类种族延续的一大威胁
10-07-07 At first glance it may seem like a good idea to be a fish living the quiet life on a small and isolated reef. But a team of researchers has found that the opposite is the case（情况属实） on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Using 15 years of long-ter...
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鱼类可通过紫外线视觉辨认同类
10-03-01 Two species of damselfish（小热带鱼） may look identicalnot to mention drab浅褐色 to the human eye. But that's because, in comparison to（与相比） the fish, all of us are essentially colorblind（色盲的） . A new study published online on February 25...
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对尸体分解过程的新研究有助于进一步认识古化石
10-02-01 Decaying腐烂的，衰减的 corpses尸体 are usually the domain of forensic scientists法医科学家 , but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light进一步提供消息 on our earliest ancestry. The researchers, from the Department...
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Three Men in a Boat 三人同舟
10-01-06 Three Men in a Boat Three men were sitting on a park bench. The one in the middle was reading a newspaper; the others were pretending to fish. They baited imaginary hooks, cast lines and reeled in their catch. A passing policeman stopped to watch th...
