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 ...

Forget grizzlies and polar bears, the deadliest bear on Earth is smaller, faster, and far more unpredictable. This film dives deep into the world of the sloth bear, revealing how habitat loss, human ...

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 sloth, found she had a piece of food lodged in her airway but ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Once upon a time, in a cave just north of Durango, Mexico, someone took a poop. In fact, it was quite a few someones, and these events were spread out over quite a bit of time—from about 725 A.D. to ...

If you’ve ever been struck by urgent signals from your bowels in the middle of a work meeting, a first date, or a milestone event, it may have felt like the worst possible time to need to go. You ...

Long-time Walt Disney animator Malcon Pierce’s animated short “Versa” is a deeply personal story. The animated short, playing at the Animation Is Film Festival this weekend, follows a young couple ...