Brigitta Green from the perennial winter wonderland of Minnesota has a fitting question for us about ice. After a mysterious, late night howling sound caused “mass slight curiosity” on the streets of St. Paul last winter, she wants to know how it is that a frozen body of water can produce such an...

What's the coolest or weirdest official name for a species of plant or animal? And how do they get those funny sounding Latin names anyway?