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A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names

The system of scientific naming began in the 1700s. Westend61 via Getty Images Nicholas Green, Kennesaw State University…

byNicholas Green

June 18, 2025