A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

A new blind fish species, Gitchak nakana, discovered in Assam, features a unique skull structure and translucent appearance.

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

The discipline of classification and taxonomy involves the grouping of organisms into categories based on different properties including size, shape and gene sequences. Classification can help to ...

Scientists in Japan confirmed a new “Milky Way” jellyfish species, discovered in coastal waters and formally named after its ...

taxonomise uses embedding-based similarity matching to classify documents against hierarchical taxonomies. It provides a Python API and CLI tool for applying custom taxonomies to any text corpus.

Marine exploration often reveals unusual life forms that remain hidden beneath the ocean surface for years. In the past few ...

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...