Animal systematics and taxonomy constitute the scientific frameworks by which the diversity of animal life is discovered, described and organised. Taxonomy provides the rules and conventions for ...

Animals are known by different names across regions and languages, but scientific names provide a universal system of ...

Up until quite recently, the animal phylum Placozoa enjoyed a unique position in animal systematics. It was the only phylum to which only a single species had ever been assigned: Trichoplax adhaerens.

Classification is a natural human propensity—we organize our clothes, our kitchen cupboards, and our toys. This applies to the natural world, too, where animals and plants are grouped based on ...