Quentin Wheeler’s firing of department chairs earlier this year didn’t sit well with university faculty members.  

There are countless ways for scientists to say, “I love you.” Naming a slime-mold beetle after your wife (and another after your ex-wife) is, apparently, one of them.  

A scientist confirms a new species of patas monkey in Ethiopia.

A sampling of some of the fascinating critters identified by scientists this year

The shotgun approach, typically thought to be the superior method, may substantially underestimate diversity in environments that have not already been classified, researchers find.

A nude birder and an Australian zoo owner are competing to set the new bar for the number of species spotted in a single year.

Paleontologists rescue Brontosaurus from the waste bin of history, suggesting it once again be classified as a distinct dinosaur species.

Protein extracted from ancient fossils identified by Darwin as some of the “strangest animals ever discovered” places the creatures amongst horses, tapirs, and rhinos on the tree of life.

Carl Linnaeus’s plant classification system was doomed, and he knew it.

Researchers are working to automate the arduous task of identifying—and amending—mislabeled sequences in genetic databases.