One of my favourite things to do with this blog these days is to catalogue/chronicle awesome citizen science initiatives. And there’s a new one! And it’s lots of fun! In Plankton Portal, you get to help identify plankton from images taken . I’ve just started playing, and so far it’s actually trickier than it looks, […]
taxonomy
A seriously impressive tree of life
There’s been some interesting commentary on Sciblogs recently about the tree of life. As my part of the discussion (albeit an extremely brief one), I present you all with some major taxonomic madness*. A very, very detailed tree of life**. It was made by looking at the RNA sequences of about 3,000 species, with the […]