"Look at that cute baby dog!" is not something you hear very often. There's nothing technically wrong with it, of course, but English already offers a shorter, more familiar, and more evocative term ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Enough with the serious stuff. Let’s talk about puppies and kittens. And cubs, kits, and calves. When a human ...

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 be a ...

Having a baby come into your life fills you with a love you never knew before, but for many of us, our first love is for animals — which makes baby names that translate to one of our favorite ...