... songwriter Neil Young. A few years ago an entomologist named a new slime-mold beetle after the president. Rarely, if ever, has a new species been named for a postman.
"I wanted to honor Frank ...
Newly discovered lichen species named for Obama to honor support of science.
PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (UPI) -- Officials at the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia say they have named a new fish species after a "dedicated" former mail room supervisor.
... of aliases. The Census of Marine Life, an effort to catalog all species of life in the oceans, has validated 122,500 species names so far, as well as 56,400 aliases, different ...
... contains about 122,500 validated marine species names (experts having recognized and tidied up some 56 ... listing of the estimated 230,000+ marine species known to science when the First Census of Marine ...
... sequence a DNA marker from an organism, then compare it with the known encyclopedia of life and spit out the species' name.
This new approach requires only part of a sample. A feather left behind by ...
... unknown amphibious predator species that probably still made it less than hospitable. The species, named Kryostega collinsoni, is a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian distantly related to modern ...
... , then don't hold your breath.The scientists
behind the discovery named the new ... 's 200th birthday. But it seems they may
have been too hasty.The species name is not valid thanks to a
fabulous clash ...
... discovered in an underwater cave by a Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher, who has had one of the new species named after him. Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology and one of the world's ...
Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent ... new finds include two new species named after movements in Mozart's Requiem. The discoveries ...
... the inner workings of a bloom of dinoflagellates, single-celled plankton, known by the species name Lingulodinium polyedrum. The techniques revealed that so-called Roseobacter-Clade Affiliated (“RCA ...
... the University of Queensland. “They're multi-coloured, their genus and species names mean 'mouth-feet' and 'genital-fingers'; they can move each eye independently, they see the world in ...
... international forum for the publication of new bacterial species names. The journal publishes research papers ... 9,263 species and genera since 1980. The list includes some important and ground-breaking ...
... central regions of Fiji. The colorful new species, named Brachylophus bulabula, joins only two ... ago. The three living Brachylophus iguana species face threats from loss and alteration of their habitat ...
A new iguana has been discovered in the central regions of Fiji. The colorful new species, named Brachylophus bulabula, joins only two other living Pacific iguana species, one of which is critically ...
