生物学（第 11 页）

关于地球及其他地方生命的指南，包括有关植物、动物和生理学的最新消息。

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Glowing blue lights of the tiny ostracods move in sync with one another.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A dinosaur called poposaurus walks near some trees. The dinosaur comes from a group of extinct relatives of the crocodile known as Poposauroidea.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A mosquito encased in yellow-hued amber.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A white axolotl in a tank. Axolotls are sometimes called the ‘Peter Pan of amphibians’ since they do not go through a traditional metamorphosis and keep larval traits like their signature gills.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A cicada sitting on a green leaf. The insect has bright orange eyes and large wings. Cicadas live underground for 13 or 17 years, before emerging to mate.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A large rat stands on a tree trunk at night. The Vangunu giant rat is the first new species of rodent described from Solomon Islands in over 80 years.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An orange California newt sits on a rock. The amphibians are endemic to California.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A newborn rhino calf stands under his mother. He is black and does not have his signature horns in yet.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Six African penguins standing on a rock. They have white plumage with black dots arranged in individual patterns on their chests.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An artist's rendering of a trilobite based on preserved soft body parts. The animal has two antennae protruding from its head and is oval-shaped.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A mature Megasyllis nipponica with a developing female stolon.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An aquatic nematode living in pond water among cyanobacteria. The small worms are sometimes trapped and eaten by carnivorous fungi.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A serotine bat with its mouth open, showing teeth. Serotine bats are widely spread throughout Europe and Asia and have a 15 inch wingspan.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Two wild bonobos sit in a tree. Researchers examined pro-social behaviors of the smaller species of great ape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A bioluminescent sea cucumber called Scotoplanes or the “sea pig.”
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作者：Laura Baisas

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, photographed by a camera trap.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A lateral view of Loncovilius carlsbergi. It is a six-limbed beetle less than an inch long, with two antennae protruding from its head.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Beyond the mitochrondrion: How did our cells get their other complex parts?
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作者：Viviane Callier / Knowable Magazine

An Anna’s hummingbird with bright pink plumage flies near some leafy green trees.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A colorized image of the newly discovered satellite virus latched onto its helper virus. The helper virus is larger and shown in a dark blue, while the satellite virus is smaller and purple. It is attached at the "neck" of the helper virus.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Illustration in green, yellow, orange, and purple of big sauropod dinosaurs lifting weights in front of a prehistoric landscape
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作者：莱利·布莱克

A side view of a great white shark. Regional endothermy in fish has been seen in apex predators like the great white sharks or giant tuna.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A louse on human hair under a microscope. Humans and lice have coevolved for thousands of years. The oldest human louse known to scientists is a 10,000 year-old specimen from Brazil.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A baby loggerhead turtle pokes out of a shell on the sand. Its head and front flippers are out of the shell, with the lower half remaining inside.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An illustration of Ekgmowechashala, the last primate to inhabit North America before humans. The animal has a white furry face, with a pink nose, and large dark eyes like a lemur. It is sitting in a leafy tree.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A white rat pops its head out of a black box. Like in humans, the rat’s hippocampus is the part of the brain where mental maps of the world are stored.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Photograph of the skeletal mount of an Allosaurus specimen (AMNH 5753), from William Diller Matthew's 1915 book “Dinosaurs.”
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作者：Laura Baisas

An orange starfish, or sea star, on a black backgorund. The unusual five-axis symmetry of sea stars has long confounded our understanding of animal evolution.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Several blooming yellow sunflowers under a blue sky with white clouds.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An artist's illustration of an early lamprey's teeth and sucker. The Jurassic lampreys Yanliaomyzon had a feeding apparatus that surprisingly resembles that of the pouched lampreys. It foreshadows the ancestral flesh-eating habit of present day. lampreys.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of two Jormungandr walhallaensis mosasaurs fighting. The extinct creatrue is a long sea serpent with flippers, a shark-like tail, and narrow jaws. One is seen biting the other in the next, while pterosaurs fly above it.
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作者：Laura Baisas

The Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) aka the Halloween beetle looks very similar to more common ladybugs, but they are generally bigger and with more spots. The bug is sitting on a yellow flower.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A clock-like brain indicates its role in sleep in an illustration.
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作者：Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Ma Rainey, a post-reproductive female of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and her adult son Wes. The two are sitting among trees in a forest.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A fuzzy yellow and black bumblebee foraging on a green plant.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A life-sized reconstruction of the head and jaws of the oldest megapredatory pliosaur called Lorrainosaurus. The reptile is long and torpedo shaped, with closed jaws and sharp exposed teeth.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An illustration of a newly discovered shark species called Strigilodus tollesonae. The shark looks somewhat like a stingray, with outstretched wings, fan-like top fins, and a long tail with black spots.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A group of worker bees surround the queen bee on a honeycomb. All worker honeybees are female and they can go to extreme lengths to serve their queen even shedding their own ovaries.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A fluorescent microscopic image, magnified 20 times, of a rodent nerve.
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作者：流行科学团队

Three stage of digital reconstruction. From left, the Pierolapithecus cranium shortly after discovery, after initial preparation, and after virtual reconstruction.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Galapagos giant tortoises are restoring their own ecosystem
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作者：Syris Valentine/Hakai Magazine

Climate change could help fungal diseases thrive
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作者：Shreya Dasgupta/Knowable Magazine

AI-designed multi-legged robots on table
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作者：Andrew Paul

The cave lion remains from Siegsdorf, Germany are displayed alongside a reproduction of a wooden spear similar to those used by Neanderthals.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A pinkish human brain against a black background.
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作者：Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Two frogs mating in a body of water.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Patient wearing a highly integrated bionic hand in between many others
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作者：Andrew Paul

Grazer looking chunky and getting ready for winter on September 14, 2023. The bear is in the river intensely staring for salmon.
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作者：Laura Baisas

Human hand bones during an archaeological dig.
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作者：Laura Baisas

An underwater closeup of Cayo margarita (a new species) in the coral reef of the Florida Keys. Note the two long tentacles, used by the snail to spread the mucus net for feeding.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A capybara standing on a riverbank. Capybaras are semi-aquatic rodents that can weigh up to 174 pounds.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A newly discovered sauropod dinosaur left behind some epic footprints
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作者：Laura Baisas

White Sands NPS staff excavating fossilized human footprints from lakebed
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作者：Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Sweat sensor worn like a ring on finger
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作者：Andrew Paul

Electronic artificial tongue sensor
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作者：Andrew Paul

Two chimpanzees share a meal. A new study found that same-sex sexual behavior helps establish and maintain positive social relationships in animals including chimpanzees, bighorn sheep, lions, and wolves.
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作者：Laura Baisas

The Morona-Santiago stubfoot toad (Atelopus halihelos) in Ecuador is listed as critically endangered.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A green monk parakeet standing in dirt. Parrots could have a unique tone of voice just like humans do.
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作者：Laura Baisas

T. rex model, T. rex skull, and Triceratops skull at dinosaur display in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna
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作者：莱利·布莱克

A killer whale in the Salish Sea is observed harassing a porpoise, a behavior that has long perplexed scientists.
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作者：Laura Baisas

This 6-million-year-old turtle shell still has some DNA
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作者：Laura Baisas

A person receiving chest compressions.
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作者：Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A volcano spews lava and ash. In roughly 250 million years, massive tectonic activity could push together all of our current landmasses into a supercontinent like Pangea and make the climate inhospitable to humans and other mammals.
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作者：Laura Baisas

A row of organic orange carrots with their green stems still attached on a table.
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作者：Laura Baisas

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