About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Roughly three centuries ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to catalog and name every living organism he could find. He is now widely ...

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

The Linyphiidae are some of our most common and least-known spiders. Although they include far more species than any other spider family in North America, these spiders are poorly studied because of ...

A bizarre Christmas dinner invitation, some mysterious carol singers and even a spot of charades. Can you solve all 12 of our ...

Maine’s loons are on the mend, filling more of the lakes and ponds in the state with their haunting calls. Maine is home to a ...

The Linnaean hierarchy is a system of nested classes whose members are individual organisms. It will be the purpose of this paper to set out the logic of this system in a manner which is faithful to ...