Animal names for boys are having a moment, but what about animal names for girls?  Though not as popular, there are two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zoos throughout the country are continuing the unorthodox Valentine’s Day tradition of naming animals and critters after exes — some of which will meet an unfortunate end in nature’s food chain. If ...

A worm sounds pretty innocuous. But what about a bone-eating snot-flower? That’s a creature you might think twice about. The bone-eating snot-flower is in fact a real species of marine worm, roughly ...