He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth.
他研究了纳米布甲虫，这是一种灵巧的物种，生活在世界上最干燥的地方之一。
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At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Namib Desert.
就在冬至前三周，晨曦时分，纳米比亚大沙漠的东边的沙丘上，最后一缕灰色的晨雾衬着粉色的天空蜿蜒屈曲。
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IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) has evolved a unique mechanism to drink.