Roger Williams Zoo just welcomed its tiniest new tenant: a baby two-toed sloth. On Oct. 11, the new sloth was born at the zoo to mother, Fiona and dad, Riley. It is not known yet whether the sloth is ...
From whales and dolphins, to arctic shorebirds and elephants, all are affected by rising temperatures, extreme weather, and ...
Long before today's tree-dwelling sloths became icons of leisure, their ancestors roamed the ground as colossal herbivores.
In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...
Florida’s primary reef-building corals have been declared ‘functionally extinct’ — prompting a shift in conservation ...
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...
The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help ...
If patience were a superpower, sloths would wear the crown. These famously slow-moving creatures spend their days dangling ...
Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...
New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.
Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.
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