Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

Brittle stars (Class Ophiuroidea) represent a remarkably diverse group of echinoderms with an extensive fossil record that has long provided insight into marine evolution and biogeography. Recent ...

Scribe of Species: Zoology is the science degree referred to as "The Scribe of Species" since it is concentrated on the two pillars of taxonomy and systematics. The field's fundamental duty to record, ...

How do scientists categorize plants from one another and where they come from? Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In ...