A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

The discipline of classification and taxonomy involves the grouping of organisms into categories based on different properties including size, shape and gene sequences. Classification can help to ...

World's most venomous snake bit Jeffery Leibowitz. Now, the SC city banned exotic animals including some snakes, primates, ...

The woolly devil—a recently identified plant species—has researchers intrigued because it belongs to a brand new genus.

The park ranger and botany program volunteer who stumbled upon them took photos and consulted species databases, herbarium records, plant taxonomy ... means tiny sheep, an ode to the thick ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park have made a remarkable botanical discovery, identifying a new plant species and genus in a remote part ...

The plant was not just a new species but an entirely new genus. In fact ... Its name reflects its appearance: Ovicula means “tiny sheep,” a reference to the thick white fuzz covering its ...

OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is alerting pet owners that at least two domestic, indoor cats in King and Snohomish counties in Washington have become infected with ...

But before we get there we’ll need to introduce you to zoology more broadly, tell you about taxonomy ... in the Fertile Crescent domesticated sheep, pigs, and other livestock.

Despite initial statements by the President of the Commission, a leaked draft of the proposal and the February 26 agenda indicate no changes will be made to the EU Taxonomy at this time.

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...