Discover the fascinating evolution of sloths, from towering giants to today's smaller tree-dwellers, and learn what led to ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

Headline: “Corn Fields in Illinois Trampled by 8,000-pound Giant Sloths.” If the ground sloths became too numerous, would we de-extinct saber-toothed cats, 2,000-pound short-faced bears or ...

For centuries, people encountering sloths for the first time have reacted by ridiculing them. In 1526, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that the sloths he’d seen ...

Elsewhere in the zoo’s Rainforest House, Linne’s two-toed sloth parents Priscita and Enrique have had their second baby in under a year - what has been described as a “rare and remarkable ...

KJ Muldoon was diagnosed with a rare, deadly genetic disease after he was born. KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old baby who sparked nationwide headlines after receiving a first-of-its kind gene-editing ...

Scientists analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Credit: Florida Museum of Natural History photo ...

But their ancient relatives were nothing like them. In fact, many extinct sloths were enormous, ground-dwelling giants that roamed across the Americas. Now, a new study published in Science has ...

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A caller asked for advice about a blind baby ground squirrel seen over several days, but animal control advised there were no options since it’s a wild animal. • A caller reported overhearing parents ...