When introducing a new species to science, taxonomists always get to choose its scientific name. And while there are some general rules to naming, there's also relative freedom.
Plants & Animals
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A respected Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an "invasive alien species," citing the damage they cause to birds and other wildlife.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2022
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The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States.
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2022
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A new tree species has been named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a tribute to the Hollywood star's anti-logging campaigning, London's Royal Botanic Gardens announced Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2022
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A new frog-legged beetle species, Pulchritudo attenboroughi, or Attenborough's Beauty, was announced today in the scientific journal Papers in Palaeontology. Frank Krell, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Senior Curator of ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 6, 2021
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A research group of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna analyzed more than 1 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. This analysis led to the identification of a new variant that has been ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 7, 2021
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A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests of Ecuador bears the curious Latin name Strumigenys ayersthey, among hundreds, which are also named in honor of people, but end with -ae (after ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
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There's a worm at the bottom of the sea—and it's been discovered off the Scottish coast by a team of scientists from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Marine Scotland Science (MSS) and Thomson Environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2019
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A glacier in the West Antarctic has been named after the German-American satellite mission GRACE. GRACE stands for "Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment." Between 2002 and 2017, the scientific mission measured the Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2019
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