taxonomy Archives - Boing Boing

biology Iron Maiden is popular among biologists and taxonomists, so they just named a new lizard species after frontman Bruce Dickinson Jennifer Sandlin

entomology Rare Hitler Beetle is being driven to extinction by neo-Nazi collectors Mark Frauenfelder
spiders New spiders named after Neil Gaiman, Peter Gabriel, and others Thom Dunn
Science The Edwardian fabulist who stole from the British Museum and got a whole species declared erroneously extinct Maggie Koerth
Science Life-threatening science in a tropical jungle Maggie Koerth
Science X-ray of a hammerhead shark Maggie Koerth
Science A herpetologist with a secret life as a spy Maggie Koerth
Science Who are the greatest Armchair Taxonomists? The winners announced! Maggie Koerth
Science Last chance to enter the Armchair Taxonomist challenge! Maggie Koerth
Science The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek Maggie Koerth
Science In the Leech Library: Behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History Maggie Koerth
Science What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution Maggie Koerth
Science Be an armchair taxonomist! A challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life Maggie Koerth
Science The lobster says, "Criiiiiiick chirp scratch" Maggie Koerth
Science Political taxonomy: Obama gets a lichen, a worm, and a carnivorous lizard Maggie Koerth
Science New monkey isn't so much "new" as "newly documented in a scientific journal" Maggie Koerth
Science The lament of the taxonomist Maggie Koerth
Science Taxonomy of Big Bird Maggie Koerth
drugs What do we see when we're on drugs? To find out, this researcher used AI to read 40,000 trip reports Allan Rose Hill
AI MIT's AI risk database exposes 700+ ways AI could ruin your life Thom Dunn