22-03-22 1. nerd和jock是美国学生常用的两个俗语。 nerd的意思和汉语中的书呆子类似。这类人聪明勤奋，但却过于保守严肃，在校园里颇让人瞧不起。jock则恰恰相反。他们魁梧帅气，很受女孩子们的欢迎，尤其擅长American football和basketball等各种体育运动。当然，校园中也不乏...

19-01-25 Chinese scientists have successfully decoded the genome of the Pacific white shrimp and acquired a high quality reference genome map of the species. 中国科学家成功解码太平洋白虾的基因组，得到该物种的高品质参照基因组。 Xiang Jianhai, researcher with...

16-08-04 Mantis shrimp, often brightly colored and fiercely aggressive sea creatures with outsized strength, use the ultraviolet reflectance of their color spots as well as chemical signals to assess the likelihood of victory in combat, according to research...

16-06-27 虾仁 peeled prawns 龙虾 lobster 小龙虾 crayfish 蟹 crab 蟹足 crab claws 小虾 shrimp 对虾、大虾 prawn （烤）鱿鱼（toast）squid 海参 sea cucumber 扇贝 scallop 鲍鱼 sea-ear abalone 小贝肉 cockles 牡蛎 oyster 海蜇 jellyfish 鳖、海龟 turtle 蚬、蛤 clam...

15-03-19 Parasites can play an important role in driving cannibalism, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Leeds, Queen's University Belfast and Stellenbosch University in South Africa looked at cannibalism among freshwater shrimp in No...

15-02-27 The miniweight boxing title of the animal world belongs to the mantis shrimp, a cigar-sized crustacean whose front claws can deliver an explosive 60-mile-per-hour blow akin to a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun. Now, a Duke University study of 80...

14-10-14 Five of the most high-risk freshwater invaders from the Ponto-Caspian region around Turkey and Ukraine are now in Britain -- including the quagga mussel, confirmed just two weeks ago on 1 October in the Wraysbury River near Heathrow airport. Researc...

14-07-04 In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that the complex eyes of mantis shrimp are equipped with optics that generate ultraviolet (UV) color vision. Mantis shrimp's six UV photoreceptors pick up on different colors within the UV spectrum...

11-11-23 The latest invader of the Great Lakes -- Hemimysis anomala, or more commonly the bloody red shrimp after its bright red spots -- may become a new food source for fish, allaying concerns about how it will impact native fish populations. Forecasting h...