Happy Lunar New Year! The Chinese Zodiac - known as Sheng Xiao - is based on a twelve-year cycle, and each year in the cycle relates to an animal sign. These animal signs are the rat, ox ...

Conversely, the Chinese zodiac is composed of 12 different signs, each associated with a respective animal totem and lunar ..

In Chinese tradition, each year is represented by one of 12 zodiac animals: The rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog and pig. In 2025 Chinese New Year ...

Since they are being hunted to near-extinction, it is even more important to make elephants a symbol in Chinese culture. There aren't enough water-based animals in our zodiac. The race to ...

One of 17 sturgeon species belonging to the Acipenser genus, Chinese sturgeons have a sharklike form, with large pectoral fins, a rounded snout, and rows of pronounced ridges running the length of ...

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...