GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Move over, Linnaeus: There's a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years after the publication of the first edition of ...

Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus, who's ...

While wandering a new planet in No Man’s Sky, you’re going to discover animals unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Once you’ve found one it’s, both a blessing and a curse that you get to name it.