Have you by any chance come across a flock of birds or a swarm of backyard pests and your first thought was what do we call ...

And what meanings do these names hold? While this is a story about astonishing creatures, it’s also about the importance of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists estimate there are over 8 million animal species ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists, and translators labeled creatures based on appearance or limited ...

When Kylie Jenner announced that she had welcomed Wolf Webster with Travis Scott, the internet began buzzing about animal baby names. But Jenner is hardly the first to choose a unique baby name for ...