Author: Julián Monge Nájera, Ecologist and Photographer. Galileo Galilei was obviously in a humorous mood when he used mathematics to measure the hell described in the Divine Comedy. The subject was not real, but the calculations were valid and didactical. King Solomon probably did not exist, but following Galileo, here I apply ecological principles to the lizards and palace described in biblical texts. The Mediterranean House Lizard, Hemidactylus turcicus. Source: Wikipedia. There are whole books about the animals mentioned in biblical texts, and in many cases, the identities of those animals cannot be settled. This is worsened by the fact that the […]
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Author: Julián Monge Nájera, Ecologist and Photographer These mysterious worms hunt with an instantaneous net and many do not lay eggs, instead of giving birth to young that they feed through a placenta, just like mammals. They are known from fossils over 500 million years old and until recently, there was a heated debate about which animals were their closest relatives. But recent genetic analyses tell us who was right all along. Velvet worms, or onychophorans, have interested evolutionary researchers since the 19th-century¹. Recent work by Laumer et al. (2019) ², while still far from conclusive, shows a tendency […]