ABC Science News reports that 4 new Kingdoms of Life have been discovered by researchers in the high alpine environment of Colorado, USA rewritting History & Textbooks of Science and Microbes.
Until relatively recently, a “kingdom” was the highest level of classification in the scientific taxonomic system that places all forms of life into hierarchical categories, they are made up of divisions which themselves break down again into classes, then orders, families, genus and finally, species.