Love the title, and great article.
This might be a total tangent, but every time I see “newts”, I think about how Karel Capek actually coined the word robot in his 1920 play R.U.R., and then later gave us War with the Newts...really smart amphibians. Thanks for sharing.
As a French person, it's the first time I see this word. My brain can't help but parse the title as "death news".
I can understand why. You rarely see newts mentioned, even though they’re biologically fascinating. Maybe it’s just because people mistake them for another kind of lizard.
The War with the Newts is fascinating. An indictment of mankind told with dark humor...