The early namers of birds also worked mostly with specimens. Hence names more appropriate for identification in the hand ...

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 ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name just a few. But we have little understanding of the holistic nature of avian ...

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) announced on Nov. 1 plans to rename all North American birds named after the researchers who documented them. The new names, while not decided, will make it ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million Indigenous people around the world directly depend on tropical forests for survival, ...

Our relationship with nature often begins with a name. It's an introduction that tells us something about that animal, like spotted turtle, gray tree frog, or yellow-bellied sapsucker. In many cases ...

BOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) — A school district in New York City’s suburbs agreed this week to change its “Thunderbirds” nickname to simply the “T-Birds” in order to comply with the state’s mandate to retire ...