15-11-23 Called after Tolkien's character from the Lord of the Rings series, a new eyeless harvestman species was found to crawl in a humid cave in southeastern Brazil. Never getting out of its subterranean home, the new daddy longlegs species is the most hi...

15-11-23 More than half of all tree species in the world's most diverse forest--the Amazon--may be globally threatened, according to a new study. But the study also suggests that Amazonian parks, reserves, and indigenous territories, if properly managed, wil...

15-11-13 The population of eastern hoolock gibbons, an endangered species, has increased in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to a new report. 根据最新报告，中国云南省的濒危物种白眉长臂猿的数量已经增长。 A recent survey found there are no more tha...

15-11-04 The world's record for the smallest land snail is broken once again. A minute shell with an average diameter of 0.7 mm was found in Malaysian Borneo by a team of Dutch and Malaysian biologists along with another 47 new species of greatly varying siz...

15-10-30 700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how they influenced modern species - including the spong...

15-10-22 In the 250-million-year evolutionary history of turtles, scientists have seen nothing like the pig nose of a new species of extinct turtle discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by a team from the Natural History Museum of Utah. I...

15-10-21 Nearly 100 fossil species pulled from a flooded cave in the Bahamas reveal a true story of persistence against all odds -- at least until the time humans stepped foot on the islands. University of Florida researchers say the discovery, detailed in a...

15-09-28 You might expect that little happens in the Arctic Ocean during the cold and dark winter. But that just isn't so, according to researchers who have sampled the activities of many different species during three consecutive winters in Kongsfjorden, Sv...

15-09-25 It's the debate that has long divided animal lovers. Now scientists have confirmed that cats really are better than dogs - at least from an evolutionary perspective. 一直以来，猫和狗哪个更好这一问题将动物爱好者划分为两大阵营。现在科学家已经证实猫确...

15-09-23 Researchers working with specimens at the University of Alaska Museum of the North have described a new species of hadrosaur, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that once roamed the North Slope of Alaska in herds, living in darkness for months at a time...