diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/taxonomy.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/taxonomy.scss
index 6043973aa..bf5c679ff 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/taxonomy.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/taxonomy.scss
@@ -63,7 +63,18 @@
 }
 .taxonomy-card .description{
     color: #666666;
-    padding-bottom: 5px;
+}
+
+.taxonomy-card .descriptionlink svg{
+    margin: 0px 2px;
+    height: 19px;
+}
+
+.taxonomy-card .descriptionlink svg path{
+    fill: #666666;
+}
+.category-link{
+    color: #666666 !important;
 }
 .taxonomy-slice-svg{
     width: 35px;
diff --git a/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component.rb b/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component.rb
index df896191b..154ed5eff 100644
--- a/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component.rb
+++ b/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 class Display::TaxonomyCardComponent < ViewComponent::Base
+  require 'uri'
   def initialize(taxonomy: , ontologies_names: )
     @taxonomy = taxonomy
     @ontologies_names = ontologies_names
@@ -7,4 +8,9 @@ def initialize(taxonomy: , ontologies_names: )
   def reveal_id
     @taxonomy.id
   end
+
+  def description_is_url?
+    uri_regex = URI::DEFAULT_PARSER.make_regexp
+    @taxonomy.description.match?(/\A#{uri_regex}\z/)
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component/taxonomy_card_component.html.haml b/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component/taxonomy_card_component.html.haml
index ab55aa41d..a6bcff113 100644
--- a/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component/taxonomy_card_component.html.haml
+++ b/app/components/display/taxonomy_card_component/taxonomy_card_component.html.haml
@@ -4,12 +4,22 @@
       = "#{@taxonomy.name} (#{@taxonomy.acronym})"
     %a{href: "https://#{@taxonomy.acronym}.#{$UI_URL.sub("https://", "")}"}
       = inline_svg_tag('icons/slices.svg', class: "taxonomy-slice-svg #{@taxonomy.is_slice ? '' : 'd-none'}")
+  
+  - if description_is_url?
+    .descriptionlink
+      %a.category-link{href: @taxonomy.description, target: '_blank'}
+        = @taxonomy.description
+        = inline_svg_tag 'icons/external-link.svg'
+  
   %a.ontologies{href: "/ontologies?#{@taxonomy.id.split('/')[-2]}=#{@taxonomy.acronym}"}
     = inline_svg_tag('icons/ontology.svg')
     .number-of-ontologies
       = "#{@taxonomy.ontologies.length} ontologies"
-  .description
-    = render TextAreaFieldComponent.new(value: @taxonomy.description)
+
+  - unless description_is_url?
+    .description.mb-1
+      = render TextAreaFieldComponent.new(value: @taxonomy.description)
+
   .ontologies-cards
     - @taxonomy.ontologies.each_with_index do |ontology, index|
       - if index>10