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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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Ten "Legacy" of Human Evolution
As humanity has developed, natural selection has played a crucial role in human evolution, rendering many once-useful b...
Fish are the oldest vertebrates
Fish are the oldest vertebrates. They inhabit almost all aquatic environments on Earth—from freshwater lakes and rivers...
mammals returning to the ocean
Around 260 million years ago, some mammals returned to the ocean, likely descendants of carnivores and ungulates. Some ...
Algae are the oldest of all plants.
Most algae live in water. Their structure is very simple; each visible individual lacks the distinction of roots, stems...
Types of invertebrates
Invertebrates are a relatively primitive group of animals, corresponding to vertebrates, and their most distinctive fea...
The mystery of the origin of turtles
The tortoise has always held a unique and highly revered position in Chinese culture. It is grouped with the dragon, ph...
Exploring the genetic basis of the origin of paired appendages in vertebrate evolution.
According to EurekAlert!: A study explores the genetic basis for the origin of paired appendages in vertebrate evolutio...
The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, one of the world's most precious primates.
In the Yunling Mountains, at an altitude of 2,500 to 5,000 meters in the Hengduan Mountains on the southern edge of the...
The long-billed white vulture
According to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, bearded vultu...
Animal filtration is nature's choice.
Filtering is a common feeding method in the animal kingdom and a way in which natural selection acts on the evolution o...
New advances in the evolution of bird skulls
The new specimen, named *Pterygornis dapingfangensis*, belongs to the more advanced enantiornithines. Its anterior ster...
The hunting methods of carnivorous plants (a model of an underdog's rise to success)
When comparing plants and animals, people often tend to think of animals as the stronger and more intelligent ones: bec...
Paleontologists discover fossils of a mass stranding of marine mammals
Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred for millions of years, but their origins are explained in various ways....
Ancient DNA reveals that human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals.
The Oase1 mandible, discovered in a cave in Romania in 2002, has a carbon-14 dated to approximately 37,000–42,000 years...
A new species of lungfish fossil from Guangxi reveals a close paleogeographic link between China and Australia in the Early Devonian.
Qiao Tuo and colleagues from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science...
