16-06-10 There were three of them. There were four of us, and April lay on the campsite and on the river, a mixture of dawn at a damp extreme and the sun in the leaves at cajole. This was Deer Lodge on the Pine River in Ossipee, New Hampshire, though the lod...

16-02-15 It's official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse's wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese A...

16-01-31 Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the huge, wondrous beasts inhabiting Australia some 50,000 years ago -- in this case a 500-pound bird -...

16-01-21 A new species of bird has been discovered in northeastern India and adjacent parts of China by a team of scientists from Sweden, China, the U.S., India and Russia. The bird, described in the current issue of the journal Avian Research, has been name...

15-11-13 The Gardener Caitrona O'Reilly The menu warned that fish caught locally may contain dangerous levels of cadmium and isotopes -- or was it allotropes? -- I didn't care ... That night, after the lecture, I sweated through dinner with a clever man who...

15-09-29 There was an archer named Geng Ying in the State of Wei. He went sightseeing with the King of Wei at Jingtai. At that time a bird was circling around in the sky, uttering sad and shrill cries now and then. The King of Wei looked up at it for a while...

15-08-12 There was once a bird called the roc, whose back was as big as Mount Tai and whose wings were like clouds that overspread the heaven. When it wheeled up into the air a whirlwind arose, and in each flight it covered ninety thousand li, flying above t...

15-07-06 A little bird fly to south for the winter. It was very cold, almost frozen bird. Hence, fly to a large space, after a cow there, in a pile of cow dung upon the bird, frozen bird lying on the dunghill, feel very warm, gradually recovered, it is warm...

15-06-08 bee蜜蜂 buzz[bz] bird鸟 tweet[twi:t] cat猫 meow[m'a] hen母鸡 cluck[klk] cow奶牛 moo[mu:] cuckoo布谷鸟 cuckoo[kku:] dog狗 woof woof[wf] duck鸭子 quack quack[kwk] frog青蛙 croak[krk] horse马 neigh[ne] lion狮子 roar[r:] pig猪 oink[k] raven鸦 caw[k:] tu...

15-05-06 As the legend goes, during ancient times, in the expansive open county of North China, there was a kind of bird called rocs. The roc was very huge, with its back like a big mountain, and its wings like a stretch of cloud which could cover the sky. W...