How do we discover new species of plants and animals? If you’re like a lot of people, you might picture a bearded, brave, and sweaty explorer, standing triumphantly between huge trees in a remote r…| Scientist Sees Squirrel
Latin names of plants and animals can do a lot of things. To name just a few: they can describe species or their habitat; they can honour someone the namer admires (even, rarely, himself*) or insult someone the namer despises; they can reference folklore or classic literature; they can even make a joke. Sometimes, when […]| Scientist Sees Squirrel