Wildlife
Will kingdoms last?
Classification is a tricky business, and the more we learn about evolution, the more counter-intuitive it seems to become.
Tag: names
Wildlife
The wattle war
Australia has earned resentment overseas for something that seems very ordinary – our wattles having Acacia as their genus name. In Africa, botanists have spoken of “extreme unhappiness” and “profound outrage” over this situation.
Science & Environment
Weirdest species names
Species names may sound formal, but look further and you’ll see the joke.