In Vietnam, in the Mekong River, Japanese and Vietnamese scientists have found a new species of fish from the Phallostethidae family, characterized by the fact that both the male and the female have their sexual organs located below the throat and because of their unique shape. of mating, face to face.
A new study with the participation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has determined that several unoccupied areas of the Pyrenees are suitable for housing up to 110 brown bears. The Pyrenean population of Ursus arctos, currently threatened, has only about 20 individuals that survive in two isolated groups.
Rhizostoma luteum is the name of a species of jellyfish so rare that scientists even doubted its existence, since, since its discovery in 1827, it had been cited less than six times in the literature. However, so far this summer, the Jellyfish Alert Network of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) has registered more than 50 sightings of the elusive animal.
After more than a decade trying to mate to perpetuate the species, the last male of the Chelonoidis Abingdoni species, a type of giant tortoise that lived in the Galapagos Islands, has just died. It is estimated that this animal was over 100 years old.
The American chemist Eric Stroud claims to have found a substance that can scare away the most fearsome predators in the ocean. And the most curious thing is that it does not do it to protect us from their bites, but to protect them from overfishing and thus contribute to their conservation.
The progressive disappearance of large seed-dispersing mammals, such as elephants and rhinos, endangers the structural integrity and biodiversity of the rainforests of Southeast Asia. An international team of researchers, with Spanish participation, confirms that not even other herbivores such as tapirs can replace them.
The origin of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) as an independent species took place about 600,000 years ago, according to an international investigation in which the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has participated. Its evolutionary history is, therefore, five times older than previously believed, as published in the journal Science.
A British Antarctic Survey (BAS) study from satellite maps reveals that there are twice as many emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica than previously thought. According to the researchers published in the journal PLoS ONE, they have used very high resolution satellite images (VHR) to estimate the number of penguins that make up each of the 44 colonies of this species scattered along the coasts of the white continent.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
