Long-lost relatives: Joining the dots in snail superfamilies
2020-07-07
A new DNA study by our researchers Rodrigo Salvador and Lara Shepherd revealed an unexpected land snail family across the Pacific.Read more
New Zealand gains a fern genus named after the Chinese imperial guard, Hiya
2018-10-12
Botanist Leon Perrie recently posted about the desirability of minimising taxonomic name changes. He writes here about the need to change the name of a fern to reflect its newly discovered evolutionary relationships.Read more
Doodia rasp ferns become Blechnum hard ferns
2014-09-17
A key principle in the scientific classification of animals, plants, and other living things is that the system of scientific names reflects their relationships. This is because there is only a single evolutionary history, and it provides an objective basis by which to name life. As we learn more aboutRead more