The rhetorical question of “What’s new under the sun?” is generally used to indicate that there’s nothing new under the sun, just stuff that’s remade a bit differently, or a new idea that turns out to be recycled.
We severely dislike the sentiment behind the expression at the best of times, the new of life providing us with its spark, and so we were delighted this morning to hear of truly new stuff discovered in the South West Indian Ridge in the Indian Ocean.
The BBC talked this morning about such wonderfully named creatures as scaly footed snails, sea cucumbers and my favourite, the yeti crabs. While some are derivatives of creatures we know about, some are new to science.
That’s pretty cool.
Oh and staying with animals for a moment, I also heard that the original Cheetah, Tarzan’s chimpanzee, has died at the age of 80. The article sounded deeply sceptical, not surprising given that chimps rarely make it past 45. But whether true or not, it gave me an excuse to watch some ancient Tarzan footage. I used to love Tarzan when I was a little girl.
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