This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...

NILGIRIS: A five-year-old male sloth bear was fatally electrocuted after it came in contact with an overhead power cable at a ...

About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are ...

Jefferson’s ground sloth was recovered from Ice Age sites in the midwest U.S. A large, heavily built animal, it had a large skull with a blunt snout and a massive jaw. The peg-like teeth were ...

Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the words “Flying squirrels the size of cats.” Well that’s something I need to ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

But it’s natural for our ecosystem to host huge animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, Doughty said. They evolved in concert with the species, landscapes and systems of our ...

Current thinking says that ancient, large animals such as ground sloths went extinct about 11,000 years ago — at the beginning of the Holocene, the current geologic epoch. The discovery of a ...