Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

New microbial genomes are constantly being sequenced, and it is crucial to accurately determine their taxonomic identities and evolutionary relationships. Here we report PhyloPhlAn, a new method to ...

You can categorize every single living being. This classification system allows scientists to study plant and animal diversity and to group closely related species. From horses to insects to worms, ...

The Wildlife ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about all forms of biological taxa, including phyla, families, and species. The terms in this ontology allow data to be ...

An artist’s reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, a species that can be called a hominid or a hominin. Image courtesy of Wikicommons If you follow news about human evolution, you’ve probably ...

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are celestial bodies whose orbits intersect with Earth’s, holding great significance for studying Solar System formation and evolution while posing potential collision ...