Jane Herbelin

Apr 9, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Teresa Carr |Anne-Sophie Goninet |Rozena Crossman |Jane Herbelin

For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; museums and universities maintain entire departments devoted to classifying specimens. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter. Sign up here. But there exists no single, unified list of all the species on Earth.

Apr 9, 2024 | worldcrunch.com | Anne-Sophie Goninet |Rozena Crossman |Jane Herbelin |Mayamitu Neupane

Updated April 9, 2024 at 8:45 p.m.*A great milestone will be celebrated at this year's Olympic Games: For the first time ever, women athletes will have as many places in the Games as male athletes. Paris 2024 will be the first Olympics ever to reach full gender parity. Still, as in virtually every other competition, the men will compete against other men — and the women against women.