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 ...

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 ...

When you come across the name of an animal, you usually expect it to describe something true about its behaviour, appearance or origins, yet many names tell a very different story. You may picture a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animals with the Best Hearing in the World: Did you know some animals hear sounds that humans can’t even imagine? Our world is full of amazing creatures with incredible hearing. From tiny insects in ...

In an era where voice messages and ephemeral videos compete for attention, writing has remained, for millennia, the fundamental support of cultural memory. It stores knowledge, tells stories, and ...