Every year scientists describe thousands of new species, but the body that regulates this process and rules on disputes between taxonomists warring over animal names has been facing financial meltdown ...

Andrew Polaszek and colleagues propose an open-access web-register for animal names, which they believe is vital to move taxonomy into the twenty-first century. How can we maintain and continue to ...

With the millions of animal species that have been discovered, one might wonder, who ensures that there are no ambiguities in the species’ scientific names? Why, I’m glad you asked. This task falls to ...

A global commission that helps to standardise the scientific names of animals was saved from extinction two years ago, when the National University of Singapore (NUS) agreed to fund it to the tune of ...