ATLANTA — The newest baby sloth at Zoo Atlanta officially has a name. Zoo Atlanta's infant Hoffman's two-toed sloth was born ...

To avoid confusion, some groups—like the Sloth Conservation Foundation—have starting calling them two-fingered and three-fingered sloths. 3. They’re related to the extinct giant ground sloth. Two-toed ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials ...

Evolutionary biologist Federico Degrange from Argentina's Center for Research in Earth Sciences and colleagues found the bird ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Sloths have quite an array of unique anatomical features to assist them in their upside-down life! 3. Sloths Were Not Made for Walking Sloths are arboreal, or tree-dwelling animals. Their bodies ...

This unique locking mechanism is also how sloths are able to sleep while hanging from a tree branch, and they have even been known to remain suspended upside down after death! 3. They poo a third ...

The previous tallest members of the family were almost 3 meters high, and this was probably substantially bigger.

Tours are available daily at 8 and 10 a.m. as well as 1 and 3 p.m.; participants should reserve ... including monkeys, sloths, iguanas, toucans and more. Reviewers say guides are incredibly ...

The zoo said nearly 2,000 names were submitted by the public from October 24 to November 1. Ultimately, the zoo decided on ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...