A baby sloth named Quint was born at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island as part of the Linne’s Two-Toed Sloth Species ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh was exploring the Peruvian Amazon, seeing sloths, snakes and spiders during her tour of South and ...

Duchess Sophie looked nervous this week as she met the "king of spiders" in the Peruvian Amazon. The Duchess of Edinburgh, 60 ...

Duchess Sophie comes face-to-face with huge bird-eating spider in Amazon jungle - The National Geographic describes the Goliath birdeater as the largest arachnid on the planet ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly featured on children's backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes—are slow-moving ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...

After a months-long process, the baby sloth at Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo finally has a name: Beany. Shortly after Beany’s birth on May 13, the zoo began a baby-naming contest, which also ...

Amy Y. Conry Davis is a writer who specializes in green living, sustainability, and travel. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of San Diego. Pygmy sloths only live in Escudo de Veraguas ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

Terry moved to Jersey from London Zoo in 2022 [Jersey Zoo] A much-loved sloth at Jersey Zoo has died suddenly, keepers said. They said a post-mortem examination on Terry, a female Linne's two-toed ...

Tumbling and sliding in the mountains, these super cute snow sloths are one of the most surprising and charming creatures of the Ice Age. Taking viewers a million years into the past, a cinematic ...

THE JUNGLE — We've all seen videos of search and rescue crews hoisting injured hikers out of canyons on ropes dangling from a helicopter, or of soldiers being whisked to safety on winch lines. But if ...