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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch 2-year-olds play, and you will soon see a pattern: At some point, most will put the items that they are using in order, whether it be rocks by size, trucks by type or crayons by color. It turns ...

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A 2-year-old Florida panther is released into the wild in 2013 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) We all learn the concept of a ...