14-07-22 A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset（狨猴） -- the first sequence of a New World Monkey -- providing new informa...

14-07-15 One of the riddles of mammal evolution explained: the strong conservation of the number of trunk vertebrae（脊椎） . Researchers of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the University of Utah show that this conservation is probably due to the essen...

14-07-11 While careful management has helped stabilize or even improve the state of fisheries resources in some parts of Europe, the situation in the Mediterranean has deteriorated over the past 20 years. In a new report evaluating nine fish species reported...

14-07-08 Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20-24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed size estimates based on wing bones from the previous record ho...

14-07-04 Millions of microbial species populate the world, but so far only a few have been identified due to the inability of most microbes to grow in the laboratory. Edgar Goluch, an engineer, and Slava Epstein, a biologist, aim to change this. The pair, bo...

14-06-30 Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of round-eared sengi（象鼩）, or elephant-shrew, in the remote deserts of southwestern Africa. This is the third new species of sengi to be discovered in the wild in th...

14-06-21 Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected from Montana in the United States and Alberta, Canada. Mercuriceratops (mer-cure-E-sare-ah-tops) gemini（双生子，双胎） was approximately 6 meters (20 fe...

14-06-20 Spiders are traditionally viewed as predators of insects. Zoologists from Switzerland and Australia have now published a study that shows: spiders all over the world also prey on fish. The academic journal PLOS ONE has just published the results. Al...

14-06-17 The Antarctic shore is a place of huge contrasts, as quiet, dark, and frozen winters give way to bright, clear waters, thick with algae and peppered with drifting icebergs in summer. But as the planet has warmed in the last two decades, massive loss...

14-06-06 Researchers from the Missouri Botanical Garden have discovered in dry forests and transient（短暂的） sand dunes in Bolivia and Paraguay, a new plant species in the moonseed family Menispermaceae. The discovery was reported in the open access journa...