2016 wurden quasi über Nacht aus einer Giraffen-Art plötzlich vier. Neue, noch umfangreichere genetische Tests von Senckenberg-Wissenschaftlern zeigen jetzt, dass sich die vier als eigene Arten identifizierten Giraffen-Populationen trotz teils benachbarter Lebensräume praktisch nie untereinander paaren. (more…)
To mark the 250th anniversary of the earliest Gothic novel, first published on Christmas Eve 1764 as a seasonal ghost story, a new edition of The Castle of Otranto introduced by a University of Exeter academic is now available.
Author Horace Walpole described his literary work as a “Gothic story”, yet for him the Gothic meant very different things from what it might do today. While the Gothic was associated with the supernatural, it was predominantly a theory of English progress rooted in Anglo Saxon and medieval history. (more…)
