• 新几内亚发现世界最小青蛙

    11-12-13 Field work by researcher Fred Kraus from Bishop Museum, Honolulu has found the world's smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. This also makes them the world's smallest tetrapods(四足动物) (non-fish vertebrates). The frogs belong to the genus P...

  • 气候变化将导致多种动物灭绝

    11-12-10 Several animal species including gorillas in Rwanda and tigers in Bangladesh could risk extinction if the impact of climate change and extreme weather on their habitats is not addressed, a UN report showed on Sunday. 联合国上周日公布的一份报告显示,...

  • 研究:物种可以改变

    11-12-09 A study of South American songbirds(黄莺) completed by the Department of Biology at Queen's University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very little genetic diff...

  • 一种新角龙化石出土95年后被命名

    11-12-07 A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists led by Alf Museum staff, 95 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived approximately 76 million years ago...

  • 美国科学家再次发现珍贵大黄蜂品种

    11-12-06 A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside recently rediscovered the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States, last seen in 1956, living in the White Mountains of south-central New Mexico. Known as Cockerell's Bumblebe...

  • 气候变化导致英国蝴蝶产生进化

    11-12-02 As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, recently published in the journal Molecular Ecology, has revealed that climate change is causing cer...

  • 希腊发现新品种淡水螺

    11-11-07 A new minute freshwater snail species belonging to the genus Daphniola was found by a researcher from University of Athens (Canella Radea) in a spring covered by snow on Mt. Parnassos, central Greece. This study was published in the open access jour...

  • 中美发现两种新蜜蜂

    11-10-19 Smithsonian scientists have discovered two new, closely related bee species: one from Coiba Island in Panama and another from northern Colombia. Both descended from of a group of stingless bees that originated in the Amazon and moved into Central Am...

  • 土壤生物多样性的地域差异

    11-10-19 Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid(干旱的) grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra(苔原) and boreal forests(北方森林) of Alaska and Sweden. That conclusion is found in...

  • 严重干旱能引起生态系统永久性损害

    11-10-14 An eight-year study has concluded that increasingly frequent and severe drought, dropping water tables and dried-up springs have pushed some aquatic(水生的) desert ecosystems into catastrophic regime change, from which many species will not recove...