Paleontology In 2007, two University of Florida graduate students made an HUGE discovery (literally). Their lab had been exploring a coal mine (Cerrejón) in Colombia for several years, looking for...

Pathology The TV show House has popularized medical mysteries, like the following story that relies on taxonomy for the proper treatment of patients.A pathologist is a doctor who specializes in fig...

Biodiversity is just what it sounds like: diversity of living organisms. In general, we tend to think that diversity is a good thing. The variation among living organisms is breathtaking. It makes...