)."The discovery opens a new chapter in the study of the origins and early history of these fascinating reptiles... million-year-old fossil is an ancestor of the modern turtle at a stage when its shell was still ……

ancestor of all primates, including humans, if predications by a team of international scientists are correct.Instead of 65 million years ago, they believe primates may have evolved from an ancestor ……

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers. ……

have discovered the earliest human ancestor so far. They have dug up the teeth, jawbone, collarbone, hand and foot bones of a creature who walked on two legs through cool, wet forests 5.8 million years ……

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206. Some bones grow together as we are getting older. ……

Q: When you are born, you have 306 bones. As an adult you have 206 bones. Why? A. Some bones dissolve (分解). B. Some bones fuse (熔合) together. C. Some bones (粉碎) apart. （答案见本期8版） ……

ancestor. It's a hominid that lived in the wooded grasslands of the Horn of Africa nearly 4 million years ago. The bones were discovered in February at a new site called Mille, in the norhteastern part ……

out of the model ship. Tintin’s friend Haddock’s ancestor (祖先), Sir Francis, leaves the scroll. Sir.... And his favorite foods are sausages (腊肠), roast chicken (烤鸡) and bones.HaddockHe is a hot-tempered ……

The country of Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands. ……

The country of Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands. ……

MANY birds?feathers (羽毛) weigh more than their bones. ……

.It's a forest in Hubei. There have been stories of wild men there since a very early age. Some people say...) andwastes(粪便). But so far no one has found bones or any other absolute proof. ……

discovery was published on May 31 in the journal Science.Only a few fossilized bones were found at the site..., Smith said the two animals likely had a common ancestor that once roamed across the two continents ……

, it still had the powerful body and the four-inchclaws(爪子) of its meat-eating ancestor."They probably...milestone n. 里程碑clue n. 线索illegal adj. 违法的，不合规定的"Ninety-nine per cent of the bones were from the same ……

HAVE you ever had an experience like this? You wake up really early in the morning and you can’t go... to Indonesia in 2014. It is a requirement from my current school that we all have to go to sleep ……