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Fish can sleep 4 years in cocoons to avoid drought
Animal world

Fish can sleep 4 years in cocoons to avoid drought

Unlike most fish species that are in great trouble when the lake is shallow, African lungfish can make snoozes in mud to wait for the rainy season to return for years, L…

December 16, 2018
How do tadpoles breathe underwater?
Animal world

How do tadpoles breathe underwater?

We know that frogs are amphibians that can breathe through their lungs and skin. But when they were tadpoles they lived completely under water.

December 16, 2018
Strange fish and frogs live without water
Animal world

Strange fish and frogs live without water

Southern Africa often suffers from severe droughts. For most fishes, getting out of the water environment is almost a death sentence, except for a fish called lung fish.

December 16, 2018
Detecting new snails in Taiwan
Animal world

Detecting new snails in Taiwan

Dr. Wen-Lung Wu of the Academia Sinica Biodiversity Research Center in Taipei (Taiwan) and colleagues have provided information describing an entirely new snail.

December 16, 2018
Strangely, fishes like to walk on land
Animal world

Strangely, fishes like to walk on land

Sometimes to adapt the fish to escape from the water environment to travel, foraging on land. The fish below are all a breakthrough in nature's creation.

December 16, 2018
Discovered strange salamanders in America
Animal world

Discovered strange salamanders in America

Scientists have found non-lung salamanders in a small stream in the American Appalachian Mountains. They have many differences compared to the salamander species that pe…

December 16, 2018
Discovered strange frogs without lungs
Animal world

Discovered strange frogs without lungs

The first frog without lung was discovered hiding in Borneo forest, Indonesia. This mysterious amphibian, called Barbourula kalimantanensis, often takes oxygen through i…

December 16, 2018