With beautiful wildlife images and simple summary graphics, this clip explains how fish, reptiles, mammals and birds are classified into groups based on shared characteristics.
Carl Linnaeus made it his life's work to develop and refine a way to classify and name all life on Earth. Discover more about Carl Linnaeus and other major figures in the science of natural history in our online biographies:
This vlog style film introduces the work of Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus. He talks about his scientific method - taxonomy - used for classifying plants, animals and stones.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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