Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small that you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they are known for their tenacity and can survive in dry, frozen, hungry, and low-oxygen environments. The paper, published June 7, 2021, in the journal Current Biology, shows that not only can they withstand the ice, but they can survive at least 24,000 years in Siberia’s permafrost. The researchers say the paper is the strongest evidence yet that multicellular animals can withstand…

Get ready for a rare and lovely cosmic phenomenon, according to foreign media. A total lunar eclipse will occur in parts of the world on May 26th, but with live broadcasts, you can watch the big astronomical celebration wherever you are. When the moon enters the earth’s shadow, the earth’s shadow blocks the sun’s rays, and the eclipse occurs. Unlike an eclipse, you can observe the moon directly with the naked eye. This month’s total lunar eclipse has a variety…

When studying the fossil of a 47 million-year-old fly found at the fossil site of the Messer Pit in Germany, scientists noticed that it looked a bit rough, foreign media reported. So they looked closely at its bulging belly and found it stuffed with pollen from different plants. “The rich pollen content we found in the stomachs of flies suggests that flies were eating and transporting pollen 47 million years ago, suggesting that it played an important role in the…

As concentrations of CFC-11 in the atmosphere decline, the global oceans will become one of the sources of the chemical by the middle of the next century. The world’s oceans are a vast reservoir of gases, including ozone-depleting HCFCs (CFCs). They absorb these gases from the atmosphere and then take them to the depths of the ocean floor, where they are isolated for centuries or more. Marine CFCs have long been used as tracers for ocean current research, but their…

Chinese paleontologists recently discovered a group of egg-stealing dragon hatching fossils in Cretaceous rocks in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, about 70 million years ago. The egg dragon is a small animal-footed sub-dinosaur. “Dinosaurs on nests are rare, and fossil embryos are rare. This is the first time a non-bird dinosaur has been found lying on an egg nest where embryos are preserved, a spectacular specimen. The paper’s first author, Dr. Bi Shundong, explained. The fossil is made up of an incomplete…

Oleg Mansurov, general manager of Successful Rocket, a Russian private company, told the satellite news agency that the company had begun to develop the first homegrown professional satellite to monitor greenhouse gas emissions. Mansurov pointed out that the current Russian satellite constellation has limited capacity to monitor the environment, with 80 percent of the data coming from foreign satellites. Given the new U.S. administration’s intention to use the climate agenda as a political tool and the European Union’s plan to…

Many people think that there is a resource everywhere, and it is inexhaustible. The resources referred to here are not water, but natural resources used in buildings. Climatologists believe it could be the biggest challenge of the 21st century. Pascal Peduci, a climatologist at the United Nations Environment Programme, said: “We never thought we’d use up the sand, but the process has started to some extent. He called for no need to panic but noted that people’s perceptions of sand…

18-year experiment validates ecological theory. Barry Keily reports. The longleaf pine ecosystem once stretched from Texas to Virginia and is home to thousands of plant and animal species. Only 3% of the original habitat remains in isolated fragments today. LIZ ANNA KOZIK Ecologists have long assumed that plant populations in small, isolated fragments of bushland benefit when those fragments are connected by wildlife corridors, but verifying the assumption has proved challenging. Now, however, a group of researchers led by Ellen…