• 海马尾巴对机器人研发的启示

    15-07-06 Inspiration for the next big technological breakthrough in robotics, defense systems and biomedicine could come from a seahorse's tail, according to a new study reported Thursday in the journal Science. The research centers on the curious shape of s...

  • 桥粒斑蛋白的尾巴

    15-03-04 Cells control the adhesion protein desmoplakin by modifying the tail end of the protein, and this process goes awry in some patients with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. Desmoplakin is a key compon...

  • The labourer and the snake 工人和蛇

    15-02-28 A labourer's little son was bitten by a snake and died of the wound. The father was beside himself with grief, and in his anger against the snake the caught up an axe and went and stood close to the snake's hole, and watched for a chance of killing...

  • 壁虎斗蝎子

    14-11-12 When a gecko meets with a scorpion, the gecko will always provoke the scorpion that has no eyesight with its tail. Angered by the provocation, the scorpion will sting the gecko with the poisonous sting of its tail. The tail of the gecko is very smoo...

  • 狗尾巴左右摇摆表达的意义不同

    13-11-01 You might think a wagging(摇动的) tail is a wagging tail, but for dogs there is more to it than that. Dogs recognize and respond differently when their fellow canines wag to the right than they do when they wag to the left. The findings reported i...

  • 某些有羽毛恐龙靠羽毛吸引异性

    13-01-07 A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage(翅膀,羽毛) to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys. U of A Paleon...

  • It's not my fault 不是我的错

    10-08-26 It's not my fault Mother ( reprimanding训斥,谴责 her small daughter): You mustn't pull the cat's tail. Daughter: I'm only holding it, Mom. The cat's doing the pulling. 不是我的错 妈妈(正教训她的女儿):你不该拽猫的尾巴。 女儿:妈,我只是握着猫尾巴...

  • 新发现的食肉恐龙改变了进化树

    09-12-11 Paleontologists, aided by amateur业余的 volunteers, have unearthed发掘 a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur from a fossil bone bed骨层 in northern New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive div...

  • How kangaroo got his tail (II)

    09-09-30 One night, blasts of wind lashed the kangaroo with raindrops that felt like icy needles. Mirram was so wet and cold, he couldn't take it any longer. He struggled onto his hind legs and blown by the wind, hopped slowly towards the bark hut. It is me!...

  • How kangaroo got his tail (I)

    09-09-30 A long time ago, some animals looked different to the way they look now. Kangaroos had no tails and wombats had high, round heads. Mirram the Kangaroo and Warreen the Wombat were good friends. They lived together in a hut that Warreen had built from...