One of the great attractions of being a scientist is that, like the early explorers, you get to name what you discover.

As a student I was excited when our lecturer announced they had found a 10 metre long fossil python at Riversleigh, Queensland, and it had been called  Montypythonoides…

Ambrose Everett Burnside (23 May 1824–13 September 1881) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. His early campaigns were successful but his forces were heavily defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Crater, earning him the reputation as one of the most incompetent generals of the war. His military reputation was one of being…