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Well-known ferocious beasts in nature
1. African elephant African elephants are the largest land mammals, exhibiting sexual dimorphism (males and females differ in size and phys...
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Five types of molded fossils
Paleontologists call the imprints and replicas of ancient biological remains left in rock strata or surrounding rocks m...
fossil remains
Traces of ancient organisms' activities and their remains preserved in rock strata are called trace fossils. Among ...
What is life? A complete guide to the classification of living organisms.
All living things in nature are called organisms. Generally speaking, organisms can be divided into three main categori...
A rich and diverse biological world
When we visit zoos, botanical gardens, and aquariums; when we stroll through forests, grasslands, and fields; when we b...
Biological systems and classification
All different kinds of organisms on Earth share more or less common characteristics, and the common explanation for thi...
The relationship between organisms and the environment
Fish cannot live without water, plants cannot live without the sun, bees need to collect nectar, and germs need hosts. ...
Continental drift and plate tectonics and paleontology
In the early 20th century, German scientist Alfred Wegener, based on the outlines of the Earth's continents and dat...
The discovery of the smallest mammal, the holocephalus.
Chinese-American paleontologist Dr. Zhexi Luo recently published a new research finding in the journal *Science*, repor...
The life history of radiolarians
Radiolarians are single-celled protozoa that float in the ocean, named for their radially arranged filamentous pseudopo...
Evolution and function of foraminifera
Foraminifera are tiny, single-celled protozoa with pseudopodia. Most of them have a hard, mineral-formed shell with ope...
Morphology and life habits of the tinid worm
Radiolarians and foraminifera are both protozoa, specifically belonging to the class Sarcopoda within the phylum Protoz...
Classification and distribution of sponges
Sponges are among the simplest and most primitive types of multicellular animals, having appeared before the Cambrian p...
Habits and distribution of ancient cup animals
Paleochaetes appeared in the Early Cambrian period and became extinct by the Jurassic period. No modern organism can be...
Coral species and ecological characteristics
South of the mainland and Hainan Island lies a group of beautiful islands, scattered like jade beads in the South China...
Evolution of ancient coelenterates
Besides corals, coelenterates also include hydras and jellyfish. Both cnidarians and sponges belong to the diblastic ph...
