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; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attention animal lovers, don’t forget there’s a whole world filled with wildlife that start with the letter “N.” If you had to ...

Stephen Hampton has been watching birds for more than 50 years, and for almost all of that time, he thought nothing of names like Townsend’s warbler or Anna’s hummingbird: “They were just the names in ...

Nature often sounds serious when it’s presented in documentaries, but the names don’t always match that tone. Once you start ...

Q. I notice you sometimes include scientific names of animals in your columns. One time you identified a timber rattlesnake; another time, two turtles (an Alabama redbelly turtle and a stinkpot).