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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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A new species of deep-sea firefly, *Liu's*, was discovered in the Nansha Trough.
It was recently learned that Researcher Yin Jianqiang and his team from the Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Biologica...
How were dinosaur evolution affected by mass extinction events?
In 1853, twenty Victorian dignitaries hosted a New Year's Eve dinner inside a dinosaur model that had been exhibite...
A blunt-toothed macrognathus, dating back 423 million years, was discovered in Qujing, Yunnan.
A team led by Zhu Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
The Mexican axolotl (a popular amphibian pet)
In the aquarium pet market, there's a small animal with a peculiar appearance—three feather-like "horns" ...
Can gorillas really talk like humans?
The movie *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes* is a global hit, featuring the chimpanzee Caesar who possesses human intelli...
Yuanmou Man and Peking Man are actually unrelated to modern humans.
Where did humans come from? This is an eternal question that humanity has grappled with in its process of self-discover...
The skull fossil of the ancestral bear Dai and its head reconstruction
Over the past decade, a series of skull fossils of *Indarctos*, *Agriotherium*, and *Ursavus* have been discovered in t...
The Northeast bison is classified as a steppe bison species (bison fossils).
In recent years, a large number of well-preserved bison fossils have been discovered in Northeast my country, providing...
A bird species endemic to Taiwan (the Formosan spotted-winged babbler, which is not known for its singing).
The Formosan Spotted-winged Laughingthrush (Actinodura morrisoniana) has a call that sounds like "jiao, jiao,"...
The origin and history of the Arctic fox (from the Qiu's fox of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau)
After 15 years of field research and investigation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has provided fossil evidence showin...
Nutcracker skull discovered at Paleolithic site (humans originated in Africa)
Spanish media reports that a Spanish archaeologist recently announced the discovery of new evidence of ancient human ac...
The oldest known pterosaur precursor fossil (the largest flying creature)
Pterosauria is a unique group of flying reptiles from the Mesozoic era. Early groups of pterosaurs underwent changes, r...
The enormous role of the world's first genetically modified pig
Dr. Liangxue Lai, a researcher at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and ...
The world's largest dinosaur skeleton fossil (20 meters tall and weighing 77 tons)
Three years ago, a farmer in Patagonia, southern Argentina, tripped over an incredible fossil in the desert near Patago...
Dinosaur egg fossils discovered in the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province
The Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a fossilized egg in the Late Cretaceous strata of the Tiantai Basin in Zheji...
