Animal names usually fall into one of two categories. There are the simple, familiar ones we all know—African elephant, common dolphin, brown bear. Or their scientific names, if you want to get ...

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 ...

Nature is full of beautiful, fascinating, and sometimes strange animals. Often, these creatures are given names that aren’t flowery or clever, but instead have monikers that are unequivocal and to-the ...

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing ...

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 ...

Some animal names challenge conventional wisdom. From killer whales to Australian shepherds, find out the truth behind these wild misnomers. What’s in a name? When it comes to the great white pelican ...

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 ...

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 ...