A black rhinoceros was born in Australia and is one of the species on the brink of extinction – 03/06/2021

Exclusive content – The note you are trying to access is exclusively for subscribers Subscribe me Know our plansand enjoy El País without limits. – Pay in If you are already a subscriber you canenter with your username and password. – – For endangered species, a birth is like a caress to the soul, one … Read more

New species of chameleon competes to be the smallest reptile in the world

A new species chameleon discovered in Madagascar, A new species of chameleon discovered in Madagascar, Brookesia nana, was featured in Scientific Reports as a new competitor to be the world’s smallest reptile. With a body size of an adult male of 13.5 mm, the males of Brookeisa nana are the reptiles smaller adults of any … Read more

New York, red-eyed cicadas arriving by the billions in May – Corriere.it

Precise. If there is a quality in cicadas, especially North American red-eyed cicadas, accuracy. There are various species, but they can be grouped into two groups: the first group consisting of species with a life cycle of 13 years, the second (Magicicada seventeen) aged 17. The latter, after spawning, spend almost all their life underground … Read more

Missing 50 years, most wanted elephant shrews found alive in Africa

KOMPAS.com – Mammals that are related to elephants but as small as rats were found in Africa after 50 years of disappearance. Reported BBC, Tuesday (18/8/2020), this small mammal with a long nose like an elephant was last seen in 1968. According to reports published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation, the creature was found … Read more

The striped-legged tick settles in France

Every Sunday, find the chronicle “the stupid age”, the animal meeting of Liberation. Striped and fairly long legs, elongated mouthparts, body size ranging from eight millimeters to two centimeters… These characteristics of the tick Hyalomma marginatum make it stand out from its peers. Established for about five years on the Mediterranean coast, the species is … Read more

Coronavirus: a block in chloroquine

The medico-political-media soap opera of hydroxychloroquine, an abundance of criticized scientific studies, intimate convictions and even irrationality between “pro” or “anti”, begins a new sequence of his crazy story. Title of this episode: the halt. The story started on Friday. In a resoundingly echoing study published that day in the prestigious and very serious medical … Read more

Edgar Morin: “Feel the community of destinies of all humanity more than ever”

Confined, he says he felt “Psychically projected into permanent communication and communion” with the world to which he remains virtually connected. He who has always lived fully, whose century of existence is made up of perpetual displacement and political and intellectual commitments. Born in 1921, Edgar Morin, sociologist, philosopher, “Humanologist”, he says, world famous writer, … Read more

“The coronavirus crisis is an ecological crisis”

Every day, find the Green thread, the environment meeting of Release. Serge Morand is a health ecologist, research director at CNRS and CIRAD and teaches at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand. For him, it is urgent to preserve genetic diversity in nature and agriculture to avoid the multiplication of pandemics. Several species … Read more

Confinement: “Seeing time pass for what it is”

Telework, aperitifs on social networks, virtual exhibitions, children’s homework … There is no shortage of ideas to kill time in confinement. And why not, quite simply, do nothing? Easier said than done, especially now, says philosopher Pierre Cassou-Noguès, author of the ticking melody and other good reasons to waste your time (Flammarion, 2013). But it’s … Read more