Sometimes it's just a matter of choosing from a list of common terms—like kit, cub, pup, calf, and chick—but other times the official baby animal name turns out to be surprisingly specific and ...

Animal baby names are as fun as they are adorable. Giving your baby an animal-inspired name is also a way for an animal lover to (hopefully) inspire their child. Some baby names are obvious in ...

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).

The animal kingdom is filled with a vast collection ... But doing so would be much easier if so many species didn't have such misleading names. With dolphins masquerading as whales, lizards ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot ...

But Morton has an idea for how to save the rats that remain: Ditch their European names and reclaim them as uniquely Australian creatures. (Bearcat? Catshark? These 9 animals have misleading names.) ...