The animal kingdom is incredibly diverse, with countless species that never cease to amaze us. From the tiniest to the most imposing, we find unique and fascinating creatures in every corner of the ...

Trish Khan, the Milwaukee County Zoo's curator of primates and small mammals, has worked at the zoo for more than 30 years, and in that time, methods for naming animals have changed. "It used to be a ...

Animal baby names are as fun as they are adorable. Giving your baby an animal-inspired name is also a way for an animal lover to (hopefully) inspire their child. Some baby names are obvious in their ...

Many scientific names acknowledge some distinctive aspect of a plant or animal. For example, the scientific name for the Alabama waterdog, an aquatic, flat-tailed salamander native to the Black ...

Stephen Hampton has been watching birds for more than 50 years, and for almost all of that time, he thought nothing of names like Townsend’s warbler or Anna’s hummingbird: “They were just the names in ...