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Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the US and Canada. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that…
OWL OR NOTHING… Squid sympathizes with those Catholics who still believe firmly in the Latin mass. Similarly, Squid favors sticking to Latin or Greek names as the names for species.