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Articles on Taxonomy
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Herbarium cabinets lock away valuable plant data that needs to be mobilised through digitisation.
The way we classify humanity’s ancient relatives is a mess. But there’s a simple fix.
When we lose insect species without even knowing they existed, we will never know where they lived, what they looked like, how they interacted with other species or the impact they had on ecosystems.
No one has ever seen one of these fish alive. But they are most likely still swimming in a part of the sea we hardly ever visit.
Low salaries are part of the reason biodiversity remains understudied in Africa.
New EU legislation supporting healthier soils was adopted in December 2025 incorporating environmental DNA analysis which is proving useful but not totally efficient.
A case of mistaken identity has hampered efforts to save the woylie, one of Australia’s most endangered marsupials.
New research suggests dingoes are distinct enough to have their own scientific name. If this is accepted, it will have far-reaching consequences
A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
Scientists have discovered that the kultarr – one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials – is actually three different species.
A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that are currently endangered.
Some say Latin names are elitist and incomprehensible, but they started out as a way to be inclusive.
Figuring out whether de-extinction is possible is as much a technical puzzle as a philosophical one. Add two kinds of DNA to the mix, and it gets even more complex.
A new publication sheds light on the plants of Burkina Faso and Mali.
Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.
There are significant differences in the skull shapes of the different types of giraffe.
Taxonomy does not exist in a vacuum. It is deeply entwined with history and society.
A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be involved.
The discovery of the Manawatāwhi pāua, unique to the Three Kings Islands, highlights the need to build taxonomic expertise to speed up work to describe thousands of as-yet unnamed species.
Top contributors
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Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum; Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Ecology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Research associate, Western Australian Museum
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Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Senior lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Director, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Curator Invertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Ecologist, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University
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Curator of Herpetology, Associate Professor of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Copenhagen
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Team Leader, Species Interactions, Atlas of Living Australia, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University