By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is ...

The scientific name for house flies has stayed the same since Linnaeus described them in 1758. Fun fact: If an insect is an actual fly, “fly” is written as a separate word. Like house fly or drone fly ...

Most people would call it a "field mouse," but a scientist would ask, "Was it Peromyscus maniculatus? Or Peromyscus leucopus?" ...

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, and binomial ...

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, and binomial ...

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, and binomial ...

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, and binomial ...

Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus was known as the 'father of modern taxonomy' for creating the binomial system, which is still used today. (Nationalmuseum 2004/Wikimedia) Taxonomy as ...

Viral taxonomy had to be revolutionized for the ... according to a system set by the 18th century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. Many of Linnaeus’ classifications have since been redrawn ...

One of the most important features of taxonomy is binomial nomenclature. This two-part naming system was introduced by the renowned Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century.