Trish Khan, the Milwaukee County Zoo's curator of primates and small mammals, has worked at the zoo for more than 30 years, and in that time, methods for naming animals have changed. "It used to ...

Beatrice Ridmann said small animals are the “underdogs” of the pet world, and people tend to underestimate the extent and cost of their care. Ridmann is one of the co-founders of Leaps and ...

The writer Mark Twain brought this name to fame ... They are speedy animals capable of reaching 40 miles an hour, and their powerful hind legs can propel them on leaps of more than ten feet.

“They always keep those in the back of their mind.” So, even if the name is goofy, it doesn’t have to be permanent, and its an important way of adopting out animals, Costra said. “People ...

De-extinction, the science of resurrecting extinct species, is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life — and one they've already revived.