The room was filled with nondescript wooden drawers full of rows and rows of preserved insects suspended with pins through their thoraxes. The minute changes of each insect’s evolution can be observed ...

The prospects of integrating full-blown biological taxonomies into an ontological reasoning framework are reviewed. We contrast the common usage of a static 'snapshot' hierarchy in ontological ...

WASHINGTON— In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of ...

Taxonomy, the science of identifying, describing and classifying life forms, is currently experiencing a technological revolution. As a result, the goal of collecting data on the Earth’s entire ...

It was under the last rock of the day, that scientists finally came face to antennae with the giant crayfish of Shoal Creek. Twice as big as its competitors, the hairy crayfish, which can grow to ...

Revisionary taxonomy is frequently dismissed as merely descriptive, which belies its strong intellectual content and hypothesis-driven nature. Funding for taxonomy is inadequate and largely diverted ...

WHEN Peter Camper, the great Dutch anatomist, was proposed for election as a foreign member of the Linnean-Society of London in 1788, he wrote refusing in very emphatic terms to be associated with a ...