Deep in the forests of Africa and Madagascar lives a group of beetles so strange that early entomologists debated whether they even belonged among bark beetles at all. The Afrotropical genus ...

There’s a specter that’s difficult to place spreading across the sciences—it’s difficult to categorize because the scientists who name and categorize newly discovered species are themselves in danger ...

Taxonomists, scientists who classify complex organisms, in different fields didn’t define species the same way, and classification systems were largely inefficient and poorly governed. Postimages For ...

This resource gives an introduction to taxonomy including naming rules, and examples. It also provides a slide which includes examples of kingdoms, phylums, classes and orders. Includes mammal, bird ...

A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place. Bundle Ecology, Environmental Science, Evolution, Speciation, Biomes, Taxonomy, ...

Two books launched in June have systematized an alternative method for classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and relationships to ancestors and descendants, regardless of their ...

Animal systematics and taxonomy constitute the scientific frameworks by which the diversity of animal life is discovered, described and organised. Taxonomy provides the rules and conventions for ...

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...