Taxonomy
New species are being discovered faster than ever before
New species are being discovered faster than ever before New species are being discovered at an unprecedented rate, with over 16,000 new species identified each year, according to a recent study. The study analyzed taxonomic histories of roughly 2 million species and found that scientists are discovering species quicker than ever before, contradicting the idea […]
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A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names The system of scientific naming, known as taxonomy, was developed in the 1700s by Carl Linnaeus to provide precise and consistent names for organisms. The binomial nomenclature system uses a two-word combination, where the first word is the genus (a group […]
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