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Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 15

Former featured articles

Total pages in content type is 3

Featured lists

Good articles

Total pages in content type is 18

Former good articles

Total pages in content type is 5

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 diets of different species of bat include frogs, fish, other bats, nectar, and blood? (2017-11-25)
... that the ichnogenus Chondrites (pictured) can be used as an indicator of anoxia in sediments? (2013-04-27)
... 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 the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature? (2010-02-13)
... 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 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 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 22

Featured list candidates

Total pages in content type is 2

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)
Bat (2020-09-21)
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 16

Main page featured lists

List of alismatid families (2023-01-06)
List of plant family names with etymologies (2022-02-25)

Total pages in content type is 2