Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

Ten scientists answer common taxonomy questions: How are new species discovered? Are the animals newly evolved? How many are left to find? Photos from Yadong Zhou via Ng and Liu (2024), N.

Taxonomy is an organizing principle of biology and is ideally based on evolutionary relationships among organisms. Development of a robust bacterial taxonomy has been hindered by an inability to ...