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 study of categorizing and naming organisms, ...

Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and early-career researchers to navigate an uncertain future. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...

Our species name – which means ‘wise humans’, though we might question the wisdom of that name today – was given to us by that great Swedish classifier Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In those pre-evolutionary ...

Mr. Roberts structures his story as a double biography of Buffon and his Swedish rival, Carl Linnaeus. Born in the same year, ...

This idea was formalised by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist who in his 1735 book Systema Naturae popularised what is now known as Linnaean taxonomy. This was the idea that every organism could ...

It took Peter Yannopoulos all of 20 seconds to know he had to buy the property now called Linnaeus Farm, a slice of heaven ...

The Museum's Linnaean collection comprises approximately 12,000 items, with publication dates spanning over 300 years. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up, peeps? Oh do you like my relaxation tape? It's called sounds from the jungle.Welcome to my vlog, guys. All the way from my home town here in Sweden. I'm Carl Linnaeus ...

Scientists have been formally naming species since the middle of the 18th century, when Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus paved the taxonomic way. His binomial nomenclature system—still in use ...

First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, Cygnus cygnus can be considered a swan among swans, the type species, hence archetype, of all swans. It is also a swan of superlatives. With a population ...