The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has removed a second stuffed sloth from a tree along northbound I-5 ...

Long before today’s slow-moving tree dwellers, sloths were towering giants. In this episode, we look back at the age of the giant ground sloth - massive creatures that once roamed the Americas, ...

Although cute to look at, WSDOT crews had to remove “Slothy” from a 90-foot tree. “Let’s keep our 8-foot stuffed animals in ...

As it turns out, it’s easy to miss when a sloth is expecting. Something similar happened at the Hattiesburg Zoo in 2018 when ...

Among these is the Megatherium, a genus of giant ground sloths that once roamed the ... making them one of the largest land mammals to have ever existed. Unlike the small, tree-dwelling sloths of ...

This photo captures a mother bear and her cub, feasting on their favorite fruit atop a palu tree. Image courtesy of Mevan Piyasena. Sloth bear feeds primarily on insects, especially termites and ants.

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because the sheath of one of the digits is intact. Made of keratin - the same material as fingernails - the ...

The genus name Duonychus means two claws ... digits among living animals would be the claws of a sloth, used for hanging onto tree branches, Zelenitsky added.Hands that looked like ‘barbeque ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

removed a giant stuffed animal sloth from a tree along I-5 in Bellingham on Tuesday. The 8-foot sloth was about 70 feet up, so crews had to get a 125-foot bucket truck for the “rescue.” ...