After having attended this year’s Taxonomy Bootcamp, I’ve come away with 2 conclusions about my fellow taxonomy professionals: First, professionally, we are in a great position, and secondly, we need ...

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A new survey shows most taxonomists now agree on how a single authoritative list of the Earth’s species would work. Species lists are one of the unseen pillars of science and society. Lists of species ...

A spotfin scorpionfish hides in lobe coral. Such marketing of scientific names is controversial, but it’s one way of raising awareness of the vast number of organisms on Earth still unknown. Of the ...

When marine taxonomists Dr Jannes Landschoff and Emeritus Professor Charles Griffiths first set the target of scientifically documenting the life in False Bay’s kelp forests, they suspected they were ...

The biodiversity community must learn from its counterparts in the physical and biomedical sciences and move towards the provision of unhindered access to its baseline data: taxonomic descriptions, ...

Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a project on taxonomic list governance and coordinates the Catalogue of Life Working Group on Taxonomic Lists. Aaron M. Lien ...

Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a project on taxonomic list governance and coordinates the Catalogue of Life Working Group on Taxonomic Lists. In our chaotic, ...

Horseflies are fierce. Like mosquitoes, they require a blood meal before they can reproduce. But even for a horsefly, this one was special. Bryan Lessard first spotted her in the Australian National ...

A couple of months ago beetles were demoted. Biologists had long thought these insects were life's most diverse order, but according to a new study in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ...