Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animals whose names begin with the letter Y might not be the first ones we think of, but they form an intriguing mix of species from across the world. Some are found in icy mountains, others in deep ...