Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

Language changes all the time. Words get new meanings. New words get made up. I talked about it with my friend Rich Zack. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He does taxonomy.

Christening a new species is no child’s play. Thousands of animals and plant species are discovered every year. Once these new species are discovered, it is necessary to give them an identification, a ...

Canis lupus familiaris is the scientific name for a dog. This name comes from a system called binomial nomenclature, which gives each known species a unique two-part name. It was made to give ...

Prompted by Professor Lwoff's article “Principles of Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses” (Nature, 215, 13; 1967), Drs Gibbs and Harrison defend the idea of the cryptogram, and explain its ...