3.C.细节理解题.根据第六段的 But after the extinction killed most of the larger animals, the ability to fly became less important. This helped penguins survive and grow. 可知,巨型企鹅在大多数大型动物灭绝后生存并成长.故选C.4.B. 写作意图题,根据第一段的Newly discovered fossils(化石) in New...
根据第一段第一句“Newly-discovered fossils in New Zealand haveshowed a giant penguin was as big as an adult man.",第三句the ancient bird stood about 160 centimeters和第二段的内容可知,在新西兰有新发现的和成年人一样大的大企鹅化石,也是最大的企鹅,其站立时可高达160厘米。故选C项。2.解析:选A...
Fondly labeled the "Shark Lady," Clark, who founded Mote Marine Laboratory and continued studying fishes until she passed away in 2015 at age 92, will now be recognized with another distinction: namesake of a newly discoveredspeciesof dogfish shark. The species, namedSqualus clarkae, also known...
said: "Here we see a detailed snapshot of how life was within 8 million years of themass extinction. It took all that time for the Earth to settle down from the cataclysm, and the arrival of these large, complex marine predators shows us the ecosystems had finally rebuilt themselves, and ...
Unfortunately, the identification of multiple species within what used to be a single one has its potentially ill-fated consequences. While the Chinese Softshell Turtle was once considered widespread and not threatened, each newly discovered species "reduces" the individual population numbers. ...
Newly discovered youngest Cambrian or oldest Ordovician fossils from the Robertson Bay terrane (formerly Precambrian), northern Victoria Land, Antarctica Several species of fossils that indicate an age almost precisely at the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary were collected from a limestone olistolith found in...
The deep sea still holds many mysteries for humans, and that may be a good thing — at least for the growth and preservation of at-risk marine life. Scientists have discovered twonew deep-sea coral reefslocated in the Galápagos Marine Reserve that have remained pristine and untouched by huma...
Unusual features The first unusual feature is that the tracks were discovered in car- bonate units that were believed to be totally marine. The dinosaur tracks have forced a sudden 'reinterpreta- tion' of the paleoenvironment of the sedimentary rocks. The uniformitarian TJ 16(3) 2002 5 ...
Coral reefsare made up of many different, genetically distinct coral colonies. But the recently discovered organism is its own unique colony, consisting of millions of individual animals, called polyps, that are genetically identical. The polyps belong to a ...
The researchers explained the Wyoming Migration Initiative and described the newly discovered Red Desert-to-Hoback deermigrationduring a public program Tuesday, April 22. "Ungulate migrations require vast, wide-open landscapes, and they are part of what makes Wyoming one of the few truly wild places...