Coelacanth. Photo by David Clode Coelacanths represent one of the most famous examples of what scientists term “living fossils” – organisms that have changed little from their fossil ancestors over ...

野牛。图片来自维基共享资源。 从史前欧洲雾气弥漫的草地，到如今专业的奶牛场和牧场，欧洲野牛——一种曾经漫游在广阔地域的雄伟野牛——的遗产仍在塑造着我们的现代世界。这些雄伟的 ...

纵观人类历史，速度一直是马匹备受推崇的特质。从古代战争到现代赛马，马匹快速奔跑的能力数千年来一直令人类着迷，并为人类服务。如今，某些品种以其卓越的速度脱颖而出，它们将遗传 ...

当顶级捕食者从生态系统中消失时，其影响会波及整个生物群落，往往会带来意想不到的深远后果。这些顶级捕食者——无论是黄石公园的狼、海洋环境中的鲨鱼，还是草原上的大型猫科动物 ...

Cave painting. Image by Openverse. The first of these revolutionary findings came to light when a team of archaeologists and speleologists, exploring a previously unmapped section of a limestone cave ...

A sleek mountain lion prowling through suburban neighborhoods near Denver recently turned a quiet stretch of homes into the kind of wildlife drama most folks only see on TV. The big cat, weighing an ...

The animal kingdom is full of surprising intelligence, but perhaps nothing demonstrates cognitive ability quite like tool use. While primates are famous for this behavior, birds have evolved ...

Imagine coming home to a pet that isn’t a dog, cat, or goldfish. Picture yourself bonding with a sugar glider, sharing your living room with a hedgehog, or even walking a miniature donkey around your ...

树旁的棕色长颈鹿。图片来自 Unsplash。 首页» 新闻» 动物科学» 地球上最高的陆地动物拥有像起重机一样的脖子 长颈鹿是大自然最非凡的创造物之一，体型惊人，结构独特。它们的脖子像鹤 ...

In the wild, survival typically depends on competition rather than cooperation, especially between different species. Yet, nature occasionally surprises us with remarkable examples of interspecies ...

Numerous accounts exist of pets behaving strangely before earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters. Prior to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, many animals reportedly fled to higher ground, ...

一只可爱的边境牧羊犬站在户外田野里，背景模糊。照片由罗伯特·博格丹 (Robert Bogdan) 通过 Unsplash 拍摄。 狗一直被称为“人类最好的朋友”，但有些狗不仅仅是忠诚的伙伴，它们还是智力超群 ...