Animal names are usually nothing special—bear, elephant, cat… you get the idea. Straightforward, familiar, and honestly a little boring. But some scientists clearly didn’t want to keep it that way, ...

By far, the zebra's most iconic feature is their brilliant black-and-white stripes. If you want a quirky animal name that ...

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 ...

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 say more about the people who coined them than the creatures themselves. Early explorers, sailors, traders, and scientists relied on first impressions, loose comparisons, and ...