The relevance of taxonomy in our genomic era is greater than ever. Correct naming is crucial for developing new foods and medicines, and for understanding our changing environment. Amazingly, we do ...

Natural history museums don't usually tell their visitors, but they are riddled with wrongly identified specimens. Such errors even occur with important holdings, including plants and animals that ...

He sorted and systematized and coined names for more than twelve thousand species. What do you call someone like that? The future father of modern taxonomy was born in Råshult, a village in southern ...