The classification of organisms into groups, taxonomy, has taken a step forward thanks to work by researchers at the University of Queensland. Led by Professor Philip Hugenholtz, the team approached ...

Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of ...

The data accumulated from these newly developed techniques has the potential to change how future generations of scientists classify organisms and understand the connections between them, experts say.

An integral part of classifying organisms is giving them a scientific name—generally a two-part name, in Latin, using a system that dates back to the 18th century, and that now extends to ...

The co-founder of Wired magazine wants to give each species its own Web page and tap the power of network computing to speed the classification process.

Taxonomy is the science of naming, defining and classifying organisms into evolutionarily related groups. It gives biologists a common language.

How do scientists study and classify life-forms? How can we understand the complex evolutionary connections between living organisms? Woese's breakthrough was momentous for at least three reasons ...

As the story moves through to the 20th century, the advent of molecular techniques and the use of statistical analysis to classify organisms turned taxonomy topsy-turvy. But not without a fight.

Students set sticky traps to collect organisms, identify and classify the organisms they find, and determine when the organisms first evolved. Every school and home contains organisms. Many are ...

In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing ...