Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; ...

Most animals end up with names that sound perfectly normal to us because we’ve heard them forever. But if you stop and think ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

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 ...

Sometimes you and I need help with scientific terms. In today’s article, let’s look at the scientific terms used for animal groups. Why? For one thing, it helps to understand the types of animals in ...

Animals are known by different names across regions and languages, but scientific names provide a universal system of ...

Nathan Kessel introduces the weird and wonderful names of his animal family including cats, kittens, and even a chaotic chinchilla.

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 ...

Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; another time, two turtles (an Alabama redbelly turtle and a stinkpot).