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, cats have ...

Most of us grow up knowing the basics. A baby cat is a kitten. A baby bear is a cub. Simple. But once you look beyond the usual animals, things get interesting fast. Some baby animal names sound made ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists estimate there are over 8 million animal species ...

Animal names often say more about the people who coined them than the creatures themselves. Early explorers, sailors, traders, and scientists relied on first impressions, loose comparisons, and ...

Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to your child’s early speech and language development? Speech refers to the production of sounds that transform into words through the physical act of ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin theorized that a sound, smell or color that's attractive to one species can be preferred by others too. A new study finds humans and animals do share preferences for certain sounds.