• Elephants to the Rescue

    13-10-09 Some two thousand years ago, in a river in ancient India, there was a pond full of fish. They lived happily in the clear water. They jumped and swam or just floated around enjoying their watery home. Then for a long time it didn't rain. Every day so...

  • 南美某偏远地区发现一种新的电鱼

    13-09-26 A previously unknown genus of electric fish has been identified in a remote region of South America by team of international researchers including University of Toronto Scarborough professor Nathan Lovejoy. The Akawaio penak, a thin, eel-like electr...

  • The Tunny-Fish and the Dolphin

    13-09-17 A tunny-fish was chased by a dolphin and splashed through the water at a great rate, but the dolphin gradually gained upon him, and was just about to seize him when the force of his flight carried the tunny on to sandbank. In the heat of the chase t...

  • 非洲鱼类是性成熟最快的脊椎动物

    13-09-05 Tiny fish that live in temporary puddles in Africa reach sexual maturity faster than any other animal with a backbone, say scientists. 科学家称,生活在非洲短暂存在的水洼中的小鱼达到性成熟比任何一种脊椎动物都要快。 Male Nothobranchius kadleci can go...

  • 仔鱼依靠气味寻找“回家之路”

    13-08-29 How tiny fish larvae travel away from the reef, then know how to navigate their way back home is a scientific mystery. A new study led by Dr. Claire Paris, Professor at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmospheric Science con...

  • 水中如何追踪鱼群

    13-08-24 How do you track a fish? There's no Google Maps for finding fish. The radio signals that are the backbone of traditional GPS cannot pass through seawater. But sound travels remarkably well, so scientists often use acoustic telemetry(声波遥测) to e...

  • 堤坝影响河流生物的食物网

    13-08-21 Managing fish in human-altered rivers is a challenge because their food webs are sensitive to environmental disturbance. So reports a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, based on an exhaustive three-year analysis of the Colorado River in...

  • 田鳖可在水中捕鱼

    13-08-01 The giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis is the largest European true bug and the largest European water insect. The adult bugs reach an impressive 8 cm in length, and the largest representatives of the same family are even bigger -- up to almost 12...

  • 欧洲海洋中的鱼类稳固上升

    13-07-19 The results of a major international effort to assess the status of dozens of European fish stocks find that many of those stocks in the northeast Atlantic are being fished sustainably today and that, given time, those populations should continue to...

  • 凉菜类英文译名5

    13-07-18 糖醋白菜墩 Sweet and Sour Chinese Cabbage 糖蒜 Pickled Sweet Garlic 跳水木耳 Black Fungus with Pickled Capsicum 瓦窑鸡 Barbecued Chicken 乌龙吐珠 Sea Cucumber with Quail Eggs 五彩酱鹅肝 Goose Liver with White Gourd 五味九孔 Fresh Abalone in Spicy Sa...