A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

Dear Pet Talk: Why do animals have claws? Tavon, Fitchburg. Dear Tavon: Because they need them. Go back millions of years, and you’ll find that dinosaurs, and other chordates (animals with backbones) ...

Bird names aren't always as simple as "chickadee," that bird at your feeder. Officially, it's the black-capped chickadee, one of seven chickadee species in North America. The others are Carolina, ...

This animal, a member of the chordates, can regenerate all of its organs so that each piece knows exactly how to regain functioning of all its missing body systems within a short period of time. An ...

The way in which most multicellular organisms have been classified has been the same for more than a century. Only recently have scientists developed the tools and knowledge to question the way we ...

Olfactory receptors (ORs) are key to how animals perceive their surroundings, guiding behaviors like foraging, mating, and avoiding danger. In chordates, the genes encoding these receptors are ...

CORD: A Comprehensive Portal into Chordate Olfactory Receptors. GA, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- How animals sense and respond to smells plays a pivotal role in their survival, ...