Researchers from Slovenia and the United States have found in Africa a new species of the giant Nephila spiders, famous for weaving the world's largest circular webs. Their nets can reach a meter in diameter.
Biologists from the Universities of Chicago and Michigan have modified the algorithms used by Google to rank pages (PageRank) and have applied them to find out which species are key to the survival of different ecosystems.
In the depths of the Pacific Ocean there are small transparent worms that shoot bright green spheres (bioluminescent) to distract their predators and avoid becoming "the dish of the day".
As every year, an international committee of taxonomists has chosen the 10 most curious and rare species described in 2008, including a bacterium that lives in hairspray, a sea horse the size of a pea, and a coffee bean without caffeine.
At the I World Congress on Marine Biodiversity held in Valencia today, both the 5% of the oceans that are visited regularly and the 95% whose life remains unexplored is discussed at length.
At 54, Delibes de Castro is one of the greatest Spanish experts in Conservation Biology, and for three decades now, an obligatory reference in Iberian Zoology.
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.
