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Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 14

Former featured articles

Total pages in content type is 3

Featured lists

Total pages in content type is 25

Good articles

Total pages in content type is 28

Former good articles

Total pages in content type is 4

Did you know? articles

... that seven of the seventeen apostles that Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sent out died on their journeys? (2010-06-05)
... that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab? (2011-01-05)
... that the ichnogenus Chondrites (pictured) can be used as an indicator of anoxia in sediments? (2013-04-27)
... that the name of Diaphoretickes, a group containing a huge diversity of organisms including plants and kelps, is derived from a Greek word meaning diverse? (2025-08-26)
... that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom? (2007-04-16)
... that the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants? (2007-10-12)
... that the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology, due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex? (2004-05-18)
... that flies (crane fly pictured) have a single pair of wings for flight, the hind wings being modified into tiny gyroscopic organs known as "halteres"? (2016-08-21)
... that the history of speciation largely began with Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species? (2018-02-12)
... that the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics? (2007-12-19)
... that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree (pictured), a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands? (2014-06-28)
... that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology? (2007-10-02)
... that the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old? (2005-08-23)
... that there was an organism from which all current life on Earth is descended? (2023-01-14)
... that life exists in every part of the biosphere, from the deepest parts of the ocean (bacterium pictured) to altitudes of up to 40 miles (64 km) in the atmosphere? (2023-11-05)
... that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature? (2010-02-13)
... that ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants? (2024-04-15)
... that Russia has the largest number of brown bears, believed to exceed 100,000, while estimates in the U.S. are around 33,000, Canada 25,000, and Europe (excluding Russia) 14,000? (2012-11-07)
... that some fossils of the Paleobiota of the Latah Formation still have living color (example pictured)? (2025-03-21)
... that Aristotle classified living things based on whether they had a "sensitive soul" or, like plants, only a "vegetative soul"? (2023-10-21)
... that rodents are characterized by their continuously-growing, razor sharp incisors? (2014-08-15)
... that in mycology, a sanctioned name refers to those used in early taxonomical works by Linnaeus, Persoon or Fries? (2010-07-10)
... that a superseded combination is not a synonym for a synonym? (2024-08-22)
... that Charles Darwin used a tree of life model (sketch pictured) to conceptualise his theory of evolution? (2023-02-19)
... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus? (2008-10-02)
... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (2020-05-20)
... that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock, but humans too? (2020-07-21)
... that the wildlife of Russia includes about four million reindeer in the tundra region which can endure temperatures down to about −50 °C (−58 °F)? (2016-01-20)
... that the wildlife of Turkmenistan includes 82 species of reptile but only 5 of amphibian? (2017-08-31)

Total pages in content type is 29

In the News articles

Dinosaur (2020-03-18)
Paleontology (2020-03-18)

Total pages in content type is 2

Main page featured articles

Amphibian (2015-04-25)
Archaea (2011-01-10)
Bacteria (2007-01-20)
Bird (2010-05-04)
Bivalvia (2014-11-03)
Cladistics (2004-05-04)
Dinosaur (2006-01-01)
Ediacaran biota (2012-06-13)
Evolution (2005-03-18)
Fungus (2009-11-17)
Primate (2011-07-06)
Rodent (2015-05-22)
Turtle (2022-05-23)
Virus (2009-10-05)
Wells and Wellington affair (2021-03-18)

Total pages in content type is 15

Main page featured lists

List of Saxifragales, Vitales and Zygophyllales families (2023-07-24)
List of alismatid families (2023-01-06)
List of basal asterid families (2026-02-18)
List of basal eudicot families (2023-05-19)
List of insect orders (2025-09-22)
List of malvid families (2023-12-11)
List of plant family names with etymologies (2022-02-25)

Total pages in content type is 7