2008-12-15 重现人间的斑驴

The plains zebra is a close relative of the quagga, extinct since 1883. But according to members of the Quagga Project in Cape Town, South Africa. The foal seen running with its herd of plains zebras is a quagga. His name's Harley and he was born in

2008-12-13 太阳能墓园

Catalans are famous throughout Spain for their spirit of innovation. That ingenuity has recently been extended to the creation of what, the Associated Press reports, is the Barcelonan area's largest solar energy plant. The solar panels have been ins

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2008-12-11 白狮子回归自然

White lions are roaming the African plains once again. Over the past decades, few sightings were reported of these rare big cats in their natural environments. And South African white lions could only be seen in breeding programs and circuses. Now t

2008-12-08 古罗马帝国的“宝石”

Archeologists are hoping to attract tourists to one of the jewels of the Roman Empire. Viminacium was the most important city in the Roman province of Upper Moesia. The city was located in what is today, Serbia. It's believed the Romans first conque

2008-12-06 墨西哥“水怪” 濒临灭绝

Beneath the tourist gondolas on Lake Xochimilco in Mexico lives a creature that resembles a monster. Known as the water monster or Mexican walking fish, the axolotl is type of salamander. The Ambystoma Mexicano, this species, is the axolotl of Xochi

国家地理-2008-03-27 The Moon 月亮的故事

The Moon has always been a source of boundless fascination since ancient times. It changes its shape and location with great rapidity in the sky. It is also our closed neighbor and the only other body, besides the Earth, that humans have ever walked

国家地理-2008-03-29 Giant Pandas 大熊猫的困境

There is just something about them. Maybe its the way they plow through bamboo with no regard to dinner table etiquette, or maybe its the leisurely strolls. From the outset, a pandas life appears to be pretty easy. But appearances dont tell the whol

2008-12-27 猴子大闹波多黎各

The Lajas Valley in southwestern Puerto Rico is one of the island's richest agricultural areas, but the population of non-indigenous monkeys is running wild in this region, destroying farmers' crops, eating baby birds out of their nests, and general

2008-11-17 埃及艳后

Her name is synonymous with beauty, power, intrigue and ultimately tragedy. In 69 BC, Cleopatra was born into Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, a dynasty in decline and under the protection of Rome. At the age of 18, she assumed the throne along with her y

2008-12-29 南极臭氧层空洞面积创新高

Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg have published the first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals near the tip of the Antarct

国家地理-2008-03-31 Equinoxes 春秋分

Twice a year, day and night, fall into balance, lasting for nearly equal length. Known as equinoxes, Latin for equal night, they occur in March and September and along with solstices mark the changing of seasons as Earth travels around the sun. Astr

国家地理-2008-03-15 Antarctic Ocean Creature 南极深海的神秘生物

Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctic said on Tuesday they collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms from the murky depths. Australian experts taking part in an international program to take a census of

国家地理-2008-03-17 Baby Gorilla 人类抚养的大猩猩

This is Wild Chronicles. I am White Matthews. At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, an infant gorilla named Wumundi gets some tender loving care from a dedicated keeper and lots of attention from curious visitors. He is on with a keeper all the time 24 hour

国家地理-2008-01-05 Secret History of the Credit Card (5)

Critics like Elizabeth Warren believes that there would be fewer complains if the credit card industry clearly disclosed how its business works, particularly when it comes to the minimum monthly payment. If people knew that the cost of minimum month

国家地理-2008-04-14 A Cat Has Nine Lives 猫有九条命

A cat is said to have nine lives because it is more tenacious of life than many animals. People always think that due to the speed, cleverness and flexibility of cats, they can stay alive in most difficult situations when other animals would have be

国家地理-2008-04-03 Hippo Spa 河马也水疗

How do you like a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nature's most luxurious full service, hippos' spas. Our dominant male hippo customer has already arrived here at the Mezima Spring in Kenya, Africa. The carp goes right to work. It uses its wide

国家地理-2008-01-03 Iceland Puffins

On a rocky beach in Iceland, two youngsters are on a mission of mercy. Inside their cardboard box, they have two orphans, fledglings plucked from the streets of town, baby puffins. The children of Heimaey have been saving young puffins called puffli

国家地理-2008-01-01 Glacier Melt - 冰川融化

Some are remain length of the last ice-age, and alpine glaciers are quickly disappearing. There was hard strong evidence that years of rising temperatures are melting away austral gob ice berg glacier. Records here day back to the 19th century, and

国家地理-2008-03-22 Ancient Little People 古代侏儒的骸骨

Scientists from a South African university have found evidence of a population of what they say were small-bodied modern humans on an island of Palau, east of the Philippines. Lee Berger has spent his professional life searching for evidence of mank