• 巴拿马发现形似河马的鳄目动物

    13-03-06 University of Florida paleontologists(古生物学者) have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians(鳄目动物) and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal excavations that began in 2009. The two new a...

  • 太平洋中发现新海洋物种

    13-03-04 When Jim Thomas and his global team of researchers returned to the Madang Lagoon in Papua New Guinea, they discovered a treasure trove of new species unknown to science. This is especially relevant as the research team consisted of scientists who ha...

  • 马达加斯加雌性狐猴寿命长于雄性

    13-03-01 Researchers studying aging in an endangered lemur(狐猴) known as the Milne-Edwards' sifaka report that in old age, females are the safer sex. After observing these animals for more than two decades in the wild in Madagascar, co-author Patricia Wri...

  • 伊比利亚半岛发现两种新蘑菇

    13-02-27 In collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens of Madrid and the Slovenian Forestry Institute, researchers in the Basque Country have documented two new species of Hydnum, commonly known as ox tongue mushrooms, as part of their study published in t...

  • 我们对甲壳虫的种类知之甚少

    13-02-21 The tropics(热带地区) are home to an extraordinary diversity of insect species. How great is it, exactly? We do not know, but today, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History published a study on tropical beetles that can help us...

  • 中南美洲发现24种新花蝇

    13-02-01 A team of scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans(双翅类昆虫) belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers, including two Spanish biologists, have been studying the forests of...

  • 两百万年历史的狐狸化石品种被确定

    13-01-24 Researchers from Wits University, the University of Johannesburg and international scientists announced on January 22, 2012, the discovery of a two million year old fossil fox at the now renowned archaeological site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humank...

  • 早期鸟类化石的性别鉴定

    13-01-23 In a paper published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2013, a team of paleontologists(古生物学者) including Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) Dinosaur Institute, has discovered a way to d...

  • 拉丁美洲成为獏的生存天堂

    13-01-23 Wildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs(獏) -- the strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivore(食草动物) with the trunk-like snout -- living in a network of remote national parks spann...

  • 脑体积大的动物会付出一定代价

    13-01-04 Bigger brains can make animals, well, brainier, but that boost in brain size and ability comes at a price. That's according to new evidence reported on January 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, in which researchers artificially selec...