Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; ...

Every known animal has both a common name and a scientific name. While common names are used in everyday situations, scientific names are mainly used in research environments and formal classification ...

Animals are an essential part of our natural world, and we identify them using names that are familiar in everyday life. However, these common names are not always consistent across different ...