In 2013, scientists discovered that dolphins identify each other by unique names and that they ... "As these animals are becoming more common as trophy reptiles in zoos, they can easily become ...

as it has with many other animals whose popular names differ from their scientific names––think of prairie dogs, which are actually a type of ground squirrel­. The common usage and the more ...

Cats can associate human words with images—possibly better than human babies—new research out of Japan reveals.

That’s the bird’s scientific name ... Chordata (animals with a flexible spine). Next, class: Aves (birds). Then, order: Passeriformes (songbirds). To genus (common characteristics).

The animal kingdom is a pretty wild place, and history is full of stories of creatures that western scientists didn’t believe actually existed until evidence finally proved them wrong—including the ...

Spiders can appear threatening, scary, or even cute, but the three most common spiders in Massachusetts are harmless to ...

Some names are commemorative or eponymic, e.g., Buddleja (common name butterfly bush) was given its scientific name by ...

John P Gluck has suggested that this is often lacking: The lack of ethical self-examination is common ... personal and scientific motives. Moreover, it requires a recognition of animal suffering ...

COLUMN. For a long time, we didn't know what the head of Arthropleura looked like. Analysis of the animal's first complete ...

A small team of animal scientists at Azabu University, in Japan, has found via experimentation that common house cats are ...

A marketed drug has three names: a chemical name, a generic name, and a brand name. A chemical name is given when a new chemical entity (NCE) is developed. The chemical name is a scientific name ...