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海洋保护区对大型鲨鱼有利
16-03-16 Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science published new findings that suggest the expansion of protected areas into U.S. federal waters would safeguard 100 percent of core home range areas used b...
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鞭蜘蛛只是看起来很吓人
16-03-16 Would you be willing to spend each night in the company of 300,000 bats -- all in the service of science? UCLA biologist Kenneth Chapin did just that, for several weeks in 2012 and 2014, while conducting research in darkened caves in Puerto Rico. In...
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食物加工的重要性
16-03-10 How much time and effort do you spend chewing? Although you probably enjoy a few leisurely meals every day, chances are that you spend very little time and muscular effort chewing your food. That kind of easy eating is very unusual. For perspective,...
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3000万年前逆转录病毒的传播史
16-03-09 Researchers from Boston College, US, have revealed the global spread of an ancient group of retroviruses that affected about 28 of 50 modern mammals' ancestors some 15 to 30 million years ago. Retroviruses are abundant in nature and include human im...
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苏门答腊猩猩的种群数量比预想多
16-03-07 Sumatran orangutans, one of the two existing species of orangutans, live exclusively in the North of the Indonesian island Sumatra and are critically endangered. This great ape is threatened by poaching and forest loss, as its habitat is being conve...
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臭氧层不一定推动自然生态的衰落
16-02-26 Environmental scientists at the University of Virginia have found that surface ozone, an abundant chemical known to be toxic to many species of vegetation and to humans, does not necessarily inhibit the productivity of natural ecosystems. This is a...
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其它物种灭绝会加速人类的进化
16-02-24 Just three years after crayfish were introduced to a B.C. lake, two species of fish that had existed in the lake for thousands of years were suddenly extinct. But it's what took their place that has scientists fascinated. New research from UBC shows...
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德克萨斯州发现已经灭绝的新品种蜥蜴化石
16-02-22 Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the Lone Star lizard. The species -- the first known example of a worm lizard in Texas -- offers evidence that Texas acted as a subtropical refuge during one of...
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10万年前穴居人与智人曾有过混血
16-02-18 A multidisciplinary team which included participants from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago. This puts back the previously first-known case of a h...
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实验室中培养的珊瑚在野外成功繁殖
16-01-31 Researchers of SECORE International (USA, Germany), the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the Carmabi Marine Research Station (Curaao) have for the first time successfully raised laboratory-bred colonies of a threatened Caribbean coral speci...
