A research team from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has published a compelling new study in insect taxonomy in the ...
Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustacean, all previously unknown to science, have been formally described from the ...
Officially, a "species" is the bottom of the taxonomic ranking system that starts with domain and works its way down through kingdom, phylum, class, order, family and, finally, genus and species.
The notion of species may underpin almost every aspect of biology, yet scientists can’t agree on a single definition. Time ...
Somewhere on the dark, silty floor of the central Pacific, more than four kilometers below the surface, a tiny crustacean was living a life so unlike anything previously cataloged that scientists had ...