Most people would call it a "field mouse," but a scientist would ask, "Was it Peromyscus maniculatus? Or Peromyscus leucopus?

Database, is giving scientists, conservationists, and the public an unprecedented look at the true scale of ocean ...

A tiny snail was recently named after painter Pablo Picasso. It’s one of many species named after celebrities or artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after ...

The shrubs probably responded first. In the 19 th century, alder and flowering willows in the Alaskan Arctic stood no taller than a small child—just a little over three feet. But as temperatures ...

Those many millions of years have given birds time to evolve into some 11,000 species, and keeping track of all those species ... for everything from taxonomy to our understanding of ancestral ...

iucn_sim is available as a conda package, which helps installing all required Python and R dependencies ... Alternatively provide path to text file containing a list of species names, compatible with ...

Also read: 9 places around the world shaped like a ‘heart’ All four species are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and Appendix I of CITES, banning their trade.

The discovery of thousands of species unknown ... in modern taxonomy, Linnaeus' class for fish is no longer used, since there's no common ancestor that includes all the fish in the water.

Mandopop sensation Jay Chou has left his mark on music charts, concert halls, and pop culture. Now, he’s making his way into taxonomy ... way in new species discoveries. According to a 2020 report, ...

This figure shows the variation in how much it would cost to introduce all strategies to tackle threats to endangered species. Black indicates no cost (no threatened species occur there), colours ...

“Scientists estimate that we’ve identified only one-tenth of all species on Earth,” said Dr. Shannon Bennett, chief of science at the California Academy of Sciences, in a statement.

Regardless, Bennett said "scientists estimate that we've identified only one-tenth of all species ... as a new species as part of an international effort to revise the taxonomy of lesser gymnures ...