Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

What’s the cleverest way to avoid being noticed by a predator in a forest? Make yourself look like a dead leaf, of course!

A conservation park has welcomed its first sloth, a two-toed three-year-old called Nova. On Friday, The Fenn Bell ...

Ranging mostly in forested lands, especially in mixed deciduous-coniferous forests throughout Minnesota’s northern third, ...

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

The Queen gets to tell everyone what to do, and she chooses a few males to breed with, we believe,” says Kerns. “However, she can have one of the largest litters of any mammals, over 30 babies at a ...

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers. Incredibly slow-moving and methodical, Flash Slothmore and the rest of his ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

From lab electrodes to canopy bridges, sloth science shows how patience, data and habitat design turn mystery into daily survival.

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

Their name comes from the half-bird, half-human Harpy from Greek mythology, which was feared for its habit of carrying people ...