Costa Rica is seriously an incredible bucket list destination. It has mountains, beaches, rainforests, high adrenaline ...

Leopard mothers with young cubs are notoriously elusive, but one female in Botswana has allowed wildlife photographer Suzi ...

Beneath a tree where a sloth sleeps, juvenile caimans lurk in the long grasses. The air is thick with the sound of an ...

When thinking of the animal kingdom, cheetahs sprinting across the savannah, falcons diving at lightning pace or dolphins ...

Athena, a beloved sloth, who seemed lively and not slothful, has died at age 7 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in ...

The animal kingdom is rich and diverse, full of creatures whose names start with different letters. The letter “S” alone ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

There's nothing normal about the life that Notre Dame sophomore swimmer Carli Cronk leads, except all of it is absolutely ...

CHICAGO (WKOW) -- Shedd Aquarium is adding a sloth resident for the first time in over 20 years, Alface. Alface is a two-toed sloth. She will be an ambassador for her species, helping guests connect ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

(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 ...

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 ...