Biology

When we humans feel very tired, we often say that we can fall asleep standing up, but this is just a description. In reality, it is impossible for humans to sleep standing up, but there are many animals in nature that have this such a skill that humans do not have, for example, horses can sleep standing up effortlessly.

During the long evolutionary journey, the brain capacity and the complexity of the nervous system of primates have been increasing, and correspondingly, their intelligence has become higher and higher as a result

In the wild, wolves are pack animals, and by living in packs they stand at the top of the food chain, but despite this, they face daily threats

It is proposed that birds originated from dinosaurs, and that "ancestor birds" are a transitional species between birds and dinosaurs.

The local authorities in Japan subsequently conducted a DNA survey of all the monkeys in the zoo and confirmed that 57 of the 167 monkeys were hybrids of macaques crossed with a specific exotic creature, the rhesus macaque, accounting for about one-third of the monkey population

Researchers believe that the longer a female fly killed by a fungal infection dies, the greater the spread of these fungi, releasing more chemical signals

Although pangolins mainly feed on ants, their favorite is termites

If you're in a vast expanse of desert, unless you can find water straight away, you'll be lucky to meet a camel. And it's not just the traditional image of the 'desert boat' that makes this animal so interesting - as a herbivore, they are almost never known to have natural predators in nature.

Most of the plants that we think are delicious have actually been artificially selected for hundreds or even thousands of years

Scientists have applied genetic analysis tools to study insectivorous plants. The study depicted the dynamics of calcium molecules in the leaves of carnivorous plants when insect prey landed on the leaves and were captured by sticky secretions.