Animal names are usually nothing special—bear, elephant, cat… you get the idea. Straightforward, familiar, and honestly a little boring. But some scientists clearly didn’t want to keep it that way, ...

Known as the "Queen of Climbers," the genus Clematis boasts over 300 species widely distributed across the globe.

You’ve probably never seen a wooly mammoth or a dodo bird in the wild before. That’s because they’re extinct. Scientists say we lose around 10 species each year due to extinction. That number is far ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study. And the trend shows no sign of slowing with scientists predicting that the ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

A young Sri Lankan scientist, Himesh Jayasinghe, has rediscovered more than 100 of 177 possibly extinct species in Sri Lanka as well as three of five extinct species and both species previously ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

Within CHRB is the Rutgers Mycological Herbarium (RUTPP) which has about 40,000 fungal collections and a focus on microfungi and plant pathogens. It has catalogued a worldwide collection with an ...

In a time of unprecedented biodiversity loss — what's in a name? In 2023 scientists announced a startling discovery in the Pacific Ocean — in a site proposed for deepsea mining, the seafloor was not a ...

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Homo sapiens. Tyrannosaurus rex. Boa constrictor. Even the layest of laymen knows that the scientific names of species have two parts. Some may recall that this convention was invented by Carl ...