Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her winter garden on the way to refilling the bird feeders. She noted that Lamb ...

Biologists have always had a natural itch for classifying and organizing life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, created binomial nomenclature during the 18th century. Linnaeus was so ...

The shady boreal forest of early July is not a place where we would expect to find wild flowers. But with nature's huge diversity, some can be found holding blossoms here among the ferns and fungi.

Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

18th Century Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné or Carl Linnaeus is today famous as father of modern biology, having introduced the binomial nomenclature wherein every organism ...

Gerry Cassis receives funding from the Australian Biological Resources Study. He is a consultant for the Australian Atlas of Living Australia project. He is the President of the International ...