Scientific name of horse is Equus caballus. Learn about its classification, types, and equine evolution facts.

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million years ago. The questions arising from the study of the origin and ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...

Animal kingdom classification is an important system for understanding how all living organisms are related. Based on the Linnaeus method, species are arranged and grouped based on shared ...

Kew's Director of Science, Professor Kathy Willis, describes the BBC Radio 4 series Plants: From Roots to Riches. The series provides a unique examination of the major breakthroughs in botanical ...

If you’ve ever navigated your way through a set of public restrooms, chances are you’ve been confronted with these glyphs: ♀ for female, ♂ for male. Interestingly, these circle-like shapes have ...

The writer has won the prestigious award in the Biography category with ‘Every Living Thing,’ the story of a confrontation between two great scientists that defined modern biology Jason Roberts, ...

Fast-forward a few centuries and Peter Yannopoulos has also enjoyed a rural property-buying spree. Yannopoulos isn’t even 30 – he’ll hit that milestone in November – but the go-getting Sydney property ...

In the 18th century, the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus set out to classify life, creating a system of taxonomy that still endures. But, as Firelei Báez – an artist from the Dominican Republic, based ...

Founded in 1921, Society for Science & the Public's mission is to advance public understanding and appreciation of scienceamong people of all ages through publications and educational programs. A ...

In 2000, the first draft of PhyloCode was made public, an alternative naming code that does not follow Linnaean rankings and is based on the phylogenetic relationships of taxa in cladograms. In this ...