Animal world
Science honors mole mice
The hairless mouse in the picture could of course not win any beauty contest in the animal world, but it was recently honored as the Year's Vertebrate Animal by the Scie…
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Animal world
Sahara wildlife is getting less and less
Scientists recently reported that the number of wildlife species living in the Sahara desert is disappearing with amazing speed.
Animal world
Learn about African carnivorous pythons
African python is the largest snake in the continent. The mature stone python has a length of 7m, even 10m. Many times the people of the tribes pecked on pythons and got…
Animal world
Discovered frogs that science never knew
A new small frog has been discovered in Pilbara, a resource-rich area in Western Australia, which also has very few amphibians.
Animal world
Beautiful birds quickly exhausted during sexual activity
Learn about the sex life of South African Titer bird in the southern hemisphere desert, researchers at the University of Burgandy in France discovered that the most bril…
Animal world
Evolution of heat receptors in animals
Animals on Earth adapt themselves to temperature changes such as desert heat, or ice cold weather. However, the molecular mechanism of adaptation to these thermal enviro…
Animal world
2010: Each month has a rare creature
12 months of the year, which month the zoo in the world, especially in the United States, although in captivity still have one or several rare animal species born.
Animal world
Found rare sahara newspaper
The Sahara leopard (pictured), listed as an extremely dangerous list in the World Red Book, has been recorded by biologists of the Sahara Desert Conservation Fund.
Animal world
Birds also know 'preservation'
The new study shows that the Kalahari desert, also known as tail-docking, acts as a member of a conservation band for other birds.
Animal world
Flying birds roam the desert
About 100,000 cormorants fly to the desert near Bahrain Bay to find nesting places, forming a giant dark strip of desert.
Animal world
Scorpion at 'Evolution gorge'
Scorpions are resistant to high temperatures and retain water for a long time, and therefore they proliferate in the barren and hot areas of the world.
Animal world
Single photo of newspaper gepa
Particularly rare or lethal gepa cheetahs have accidentally entered the lens of scientists in the Sahara desert, in Algeria.
Animal world
Amazing designs of nature (part 1)
On the hot desert, the small lizard, 2cm tall, looked up at Parker frightened like a newborn dinosaur who lost her mother. It seems too cute for this harsh land, yet it…
Animal world
Desert snakes hear mouse steps with jaws
Only a few decades ago, some scientists suspected snakes could not hear. Snakes don't have ears and ears outside, so it's hard to find out why this reptile can pick up s…
Animal world
Avoid hunters, a herd of elephants hid on the desert island
International experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on an uninhabited island in a swamp in southern Sudan. This seems to be a refuge that helps them avoid hunt…