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Bookmark or Share- ‘Missing’ sea sponges discovered | University of CambridgeIn a paper released in the journal Nature, an international team including researchers from the University of Cambridge, have reported a 550-million-year-old sea sponge from the “lost years” and proposed that the earliest sea sponges had not yet developed mineral skeletons, offering new parameters to the search for the missing fossils.
- Opinion: Frankenstein or Krampus? What our monsters say about usOne of the two monsters set to hit cinemas displays the dangers of hubristic human enterprise (Victor Frankenstein); the other provides a dark embodiment of Christmas-spirit gone awry (Krampus). Such monsters are images that embody the cultural or psychological characteristics that we as a society find difficult to acknowledge.
- Spiky monsters: new species of ‘super-armoured’ worm discoveredThe results, from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Yunnan University in China, are published today (29 June) in the journal PNAS. The creature has been named Collinsium ciliosum, or Hairy Collins’ Monster, named for the palaeontologist Desmond Collins, who discovered and first illustrated a similar Canadian fossil in the 1980s.
- What is a monster? - University of CambridgeThe etymology of monstrosity suggests the complex roles that monsters play within society. 'Monster' probably derives from the Latin, monstrare, meaning 'to demonstrate', and monere, 'to warn'. Monsters, in essence, are demonstrative. They reveal, portend, show and make evident, often uncomfortably so. Though the modern gothic monster and the ...
- Opinion: What Ancient Greece can teach us about toxic masculinity todaySex offender ‘monsters’ are as prevalent in today’s media as they were on the ancient stage. Rachel Krys, co-director of the End Violence Against Women coalition describes these stereotypes as unhelpful, allowing unacceptable behaviour short of sexual assault to be disassociated from perpetration. According to the coalition, most ...
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