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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn the correct names for baby animals in English! This video shows you how to say baby horse, pig, duck and goose in English.

Test your English vocabulary! Can you name these animals? Elephant, hippo, ram, camel, gorilla, and deer. Learn English with this fun challenge! Trump’s National Guard moves hit legal roadblocks NATO ...

Mr. Zinc, right, got his name after metal objects the whooping crane had eaten caused elevated zinc levels in his blood. When a female whooping crane, left, became his mate, she became Mrs. Zinc.