Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

His parents wanted him to be a priest, but he rejected the collar to study natural order. Swede Carl Linnaeus, a medical doctor who treated syphilis, tried to organize the world's flora and fauna.

Linnaeus acquired the specimen after convincing King Adolf Frederick of Sweden to purchase it for his personal collection. “I am pleased that the little elephant has arrived. If he costs a lot, he was ...

Linnaeus collected 643 different plant species that were then fed to horses, cows, pigs, sheep and goats. The results were carefully compiled but not analyzed until now, 275 years later. Are cows ...

Language changes all the time. Words get new meanings. New words get made up. I talked about it with my friend Rich Zack. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He does taxonomy.

Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from India. About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18 th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. In a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, ...