Foralmostacentury,Ecuador'sgianttortoises(陆龟)havebeenprotected.Thesespeciesareoneofthelargestlivingreptiles(爬行动物)ontheplanet.Theyliveaverylonglife—theoldesttortoiseonrecordwas175yearsold.And,theyallliveontheGalapagosIslands.HuntingthetortoisesisillegalunderEcuador'slaws,butnowtheAttorneyGeneral'sofficehasopen...
Finally, the ideology suggests that nature has worked her will in another significant way@For the human species to survive over time, its members must regularly reproduce@Thus, women must, whether at home or in the labor force, make the most of their physical appearances. ●Large printed and...
European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness. But the high demand left them endangered—still today.
which was categorized into 18 subclades. Five of these subclades contained novel species. Each of these new species manifested unique molecular signatures localized to the E23-5 helix of the V4 region within the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA), the E11-1 helix of D7b, and ...
“dead zone”. They are spreading in the way “invasive species” spread in nature, lacking checks and balances, killing off diversity and “native” (in other words, local) species. Tesco is not the only guilty party (think of McDonald’s. Starbucks, and Gap), but it is possibly the...
And the findings are described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.The fact that the two monkey species seem to speak similar language, even though they separated from their last common ancestor some 3 million years ago,suggests that this kind of warning system is unchanged. So if you ...
The Venus’ flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants says Barry Meyers-Rice the editor of the International Carnivorous Plant Society’s Newsletter. Note: Despite any science –fiction stories you might have read no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans. Dr. ...
After all we're a visual species (视觉物种). Red can easily grasp our eyes. Now, it'sunclear why red makes us feel this way. But Almost 80% of consumers said that color is whatgives brands that memorable stamp of recognition.Just think what McDonald's would look like in blue, green...
The species in question is the blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata), a small, highly venomous cephalopod that lives in the Pacific Ocean off eastern Australia. Their arms are covered in iridescent blue rings, which they display towarn approaching predatorsto steer...
Harpur declares, has been denied for so long that it returns to us now “externalized” as gray aliens and Bigfoot and the Blessed Virgin Mary, as daemons (messengers) whose mission is to remind us that we are a recalcitrant and — species who glorify our own small facet of the natural...