The classification of organisms into groups, taxonomy, has taken a step forward thanks to work by researchers at the University of Queensland. Led by Professor Philip Hugenholtz, the team approached ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

The way in which most multicellular organisms have been classified has been the same for more than a century. Only recently have scientists developed the tools and knowledge to question the way we ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Kelly has his work cut out for him. Not only does he want to discover, describe and catalog every living species on earth, he’d like to make it cool to work in the hitherto ...

What should you call that bird? You couldn't go wrong with "dinosaur," taxonomists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you ...

How do scientists study and classify life-forms? How can we understand the complex evolutionary connections between living organisms? Woese's breakthrough was momentous for at least three reasons.

Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of forams provides important information about climate change, the state of the ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

When considering the scientists who influenced our understanding of evolution, it’s natural to think of Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, W.D. Hamilton, Barbara McClintock, and Richard ...

In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing ...