WHAT IS ORDER?
The term order comes from the latin word ordo. In the taxonomy rank, it's between class and family. The order was first introduce by the German botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinusin his classification of plants that appear in the 1690s. Again, Carolus Linnaeus was the first one to apply the term to his three kingdoms, minerals, plants, and animals in his Systema Naturae.
Meet Eudyptula minor - little penguin:
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