According to an article on cosmosmagazine.com, 123 new species have been discovered on Borneo island over the past three years.
New species can provide subject matter for a range of cinema and fiction, from the blood orchid in Anaconda to the giant gorilla in Mighty Joe Young or the extra terrestrials in District 9.
They can be used to inject specific types of scientific subject matter into a story, whether related to biology, psychology across species, immunology (for viruses and disease carrying organisms) and so on.
Periodical cicadas in the eastern United States emerge from the ground
every 13 or 17 years — both prime numbers, not by coincidence — because
their long, indivisible cycles make it nearly impossible for any predator
with a shorter life cycle to evolve to feed on them, in one of the most
mathematically elegant defenses in the natural world
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In the spring of 2024, two enormous populations of periodical cicadas
emerged simultaneously from the soil across the eastern and midwestern
United State...
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