The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

Weighted stuffed animals offer similar benefits to weighted blankets, but they’re smaller, more transportable and much less hefty.

Chandigarh: The Rock Honey bee (Apis dorsata) deploys formidable air defences by virtue of its massed stings. When the bee ...

The zoo’s newest addition was born June 19 to Linne’s two-toed sloth couple Charlotte and Elliot, their fifth baby at the zoo.

From ‘Stranger Things’ to ‘Super 8’, many a kids adventure story owes its existence to the 1985 film ‘The Goonies’ starring Sean Austin and Josh Brolin ...

It was horrifying enough for anyone when a door plug popped off an Alaska Airlines flight at more than 16,000 feet last year, causing an explosive decompression. But one mother’s nightmare was ...

Sloth. Image via Openverse. Three-toed sloths (genus Bradypus) engage in perhaps the most baffling bathroom behavior in the animal kingdom. Approximately once a week, these creatures laboriously ...

The Mauch Chunk Opera House stands as a testament to the town’s prosperous past, its brick facade and ornate details hinting at the wealth that once flowed through this mountain community. Built in ...

Publication date 1872 Topics Switch Back Railroad Publisher Mauch Chunk, Boyle, Reed & Gihon Collection library_of_congress; americana Contributor The Library of Congress Language English Item Size 91 ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.

Discover the fascinating evolution of sloths, from towering giants to today's smaller tree-dwellers, and learn what led to the extinction of their colossal relatives.