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).

Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Even though the letter V is at the end of the alphabet, it is the first letter of some of the most colorful and important animal species. Animals that start with the letter V have been in the news ...