How it got into our house I will never know. In my experience, there is just one animal that appears quite unpredictable in its behavior: the Giant Desert Centipede. A few nights ago I was confronted ...

Taxonomic descriptions, introduced by Linnaeus in 1735, are designed to allow scientists to tell one species from another. Now there is a new futuristic method for describing new species that goes far ...

Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island ...

The rates of extinction have lent urgency to the description of new species, but what is the point of names without meaningful data? A new study presents an innovative holistic approach based on the ...