Scientists: Monkeys Used Raft to Cross Ocean 科学家:猴子用木筏横渡海洋 Scientists found seven monkey teeth that became fossils in an area near the Panama Canal. The teeth were more than five million years old. Scientists think that is whe

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(五)月

Meanwhile, the ground sloth, like the mastodons, must eat most of the day to fuel its huge bulk. This may be the ice age, but by midday, temperatures soar, drawing another predator to the spring to drinkthe notorious saber-toothed cat. Most creatures

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Today, there is a group of larger visitors here, too. A herd of mastodons led by the matriarch have just returned from their annual migration hundreds of miles to the north. Now the winter drought is over and the spring water has been topped up by re

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This is the Virginia opossum, a tree dweller found throughout many of the southern states. It's the only North American marsupial. The young are born premature and matured in the mother's pouch. And its only close relatives today are found in Central

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What do a gibbon, a sloth, and a newt havein common? One, you are going to see them in todays show. Two, researchers areconcerned they might never be seen again. This is CNNs Student News. A moment of silence in New York City, partof a day at memoria

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Most kids are on summer vacation from school right now, but the adults still have to go to work. Commentator Yvette Doss wishes she could split the difference between the two. Frankly, a lot of days I'd rather be doing nothing. I string up the hammoc

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Visitors to the California city of San Diego can enter a world of elephants, jaguars, camels and other modern animals whose distant cousins lived in North America. The San Diego Zoo's Elephant Odyssey is a new exhibit that shows the links between an

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 20 October 2009 Millions of wild horses, known as mustangs, once roamed North America. Today, just a fraction of that number are left, most in the American Southwest. In her new book Mustang, Deanne Stillman celebrates

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Lucy Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society. Their motto - being fast is overrated. Of course, that's not her only claim to fame. Cooke is an Oxford-trained zoologist and an award-winning documentary filmmak

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《我的第一套自然拼读故事书》是美国创新儿童出版社(Innovativekids)出版的一套用自然拼读法引导和培养孩子阅读兴趣的故事绘本,适合中国学龄前和小学低年级的小朋友阅读和学习。整套书

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Say my name,No, you say RominaSay my name,No, you say romina,Say my nameSay my name, say my name, if no one is around you, say baby I love you, if you arent running gameYou were in the Miami Vice, and were in Miami, who would you say embodies more Mi

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o

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The plot of WALLE may be about a steaming heap of garbage, but the film is a garden of unearthly delights. Set in a future where the Earth has become covered in trash, swept by monstrous, rumbling dust storms and whose only bona fide wildlife is the

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