018May 14, 2016

Treat yourself with an airbrushed version of our detailed scientific 3D models like this modern life reconstruction of a Mesozoic cephalopod (Ceratites) and enjoy enhancing it by having the object painted according to your wishes.

008September 1, 2015

If we are interested in wildlife or the evolution of animals and plants, respectively their behaviour, ecological requirements or systematics, we will encounter disciplines of organismic biology (neontology) and palaeobiology (palaeontology). The same will happen if we are interested, e.g., in mushrooms/fungi or early and primitive life.

007August 29, 2015

The history of the Earth, which began with the formation of the planet approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is divided into named units of unequal ranks like «Mesozoic», «Triassic», «Jurassic», «Cretaceous» and so on (see below).

006July 23, 2015

In biological sciences there are two approaches for establishing family trees or cladograms of organisms: based on fossil data on the one and on molecular data on the other hand.

003June 10, 2015

Today the basis for the denomination of animals and plants is the binominal nomenclature that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné (1707 to 1778, born as Carl Nilsson Linnaeus [Linnæus]) in 1753 for plants («Species Plantarum») and in 1758 for animals («Systema Naturae», 10th edition).