New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

If you’ve ever navigated your way through a set of public restrooms, chances are you’ve been confronted with these glyphs: ♀ for female, ♂ for male. Interestingly, these circle-like shapes have ...

In the 18th century, the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus set out to classify life, creating a system of taxonomy that still endures. But, as Firelei Báez – an artist from the Dominican Republic, based ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...

Founded in 1921, Society for Science & the Public's mission is to advance public understanding and appreciation of scienceamong people of all ages through publications and educational programs. A ...

In 2000, the first draft of PhyloCode was made public, an alternative naming code that does not follow Linnaean rankings and is based on the phylogenetic relationships of taxa in cladograms. In this ...

If you're wondering whether birds are reptiles, know this: The reptile family tree is more varied and diverse than you might realize. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

AN anonymous writer in one of the local morning papers thoughtfully “arranges” the Unbought Tenants of the Six Counties “into four categories”. So might an anthropologist classify the various races of ...

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