People find great satisfaction in labels: being able to refer to something as something, a type of something and a member of the set of somethings. Thus we find ourselves with the number google, the colour peacock, and identity crises over being a Millennial or a Zoomer. But when it comes to organisms, the need …
One thousand, two hundred and fifteen years ago, upon the slope of a volcano in the Aomori prefecture of Japan, a shrine was built. Beside that shrine, a small pool was made from a natural spring, providing a water source for visitors to the shrine and their horses. These features would be maintained for 1000 years, a sanctuary for a tiny shrimp whose world had turned inhospitable.
Novel Ecology 