Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...

I’ve written several columns on bird names. There are names that don’t describe the birds very well, names with obscure historical roots which make sense only once you understand them, names that ...

After years-long discussion, birds will no longer be named after people — a decision meant to dissociate the animals from problematic eponyms. The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more useful, ...

A little birdie whispered that avian names may be growing in popularity. Actress Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden, the lead guitarist of Good Charlotte, announced the birth of their son ...

CHICAGO (TND) — The American Ornithological Society (AOS), a global network of scientists dedicated to studying birds, announced Wednesday it will alter the names of dozens of birds “clouded by racism ...