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Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. This statement is certainly correct in the human world, but is it also true in the animal world? Since the beginning of time, animals have done odd things to attract another's attention. Inside of all anima

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And now to our NewsHour Shares. Seawalls help to protect developed shorelines, but they can also destroy crucial habitat. One project in Washington state aims to fix that. Ken Christensen of KCTS' EarthFix explains. The Seattle waterfront is changing

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To Live or to Die The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vege

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Captain Nemo decided to make for the ocean floor by submerging on an appropriately gradual diagonal with the help of his side fins, which were set at a 45 degrees angle to the Nautilus's waterline. 尼摩船长决定这样探测海底，即使用船侧

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A couple million years ago, mammoths migrated north from Africa to colonize Eurasia. Sometime around then a massive ice age kicked inand it was stay warm or die. So their tails and heat-shedding ears shrunk, and they grew thick coats of oily fur. But

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Climate Change Leading to Strange Poisonous Fish People in Japan pay good money to eat the deadly pufferfish. There, the food is called fugu. The fish can cost more than $100 a kilogram. Eating fugu is especially popular now, during the winter holida

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I think its a very beautiful idea that you have this little egg thats surprisingly small and out of it comes a baby sauroposeidon thats about the size of a rabbit and in two or three decades, its gonna be a 50-ton adult. But why does this huge animal

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Other zoophytes swarming near the sponges consisted chiefly of a very elegant species of jellyfish; 在海绵类旁边繁殖着的其他植虫动物，主要是形状很美观的一种水母。 mollusks were represented by varieties of squid that, ac

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While this bizarre scenery was glittering under our electric beams, I told Conseil the story of the Atlanteans, who had inspired the old French scientist Jean Bailly to write so many entertaining-albeit utterly fictitious-pages.I told the lad about t

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To be or not to be Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only