Some call it the monster fish; others say that it looks bizarre, like a creature right out of the Dinosaur Age.

有些人叫它怪物鱼，有的人说它的长相很古怪，就像刚刚从恐龙时代走出来的生物。

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On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age.

第一堂课，他给我们讲了一种无法适应冰期气候而灭绝的夜行性动物，叫作“乌有猫”。

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But, though the guides survived, his influence had faded before the age of the celebrity chef, a creature he had little time for.

ECONOMIST: Egon Ronay

They say the lengths of tiny pieces of DNA called telomeres indicate whether a young creature is likely to live long into old age.

BBC: Glasgow scientists say telomeres indicate life length