Each year, thousands of people from around the world come to Athens County to take part in the Ohio Pawpaw Festival. This ...

India is a country with a great biodiversity and possesses some quite unique ecosystems. Indian forests are among the most ...

Sloths are becoming popular for something far more dangerous than their resting image. The sloth has become a host for the ...

Scientists are using new tools and technologies like artificial intelligence to look for new medicines in plants and other ...

French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, one of nature’s most distinctive creatures hangs from tree branches, moving with deliberate slowness as they have for millions of years.

In the lush canopies of Central and South American rainforests, sloths lead a life defined by slowness and energy conservation. These remarkable mammals spend nearly their entire lives hanging upside ...

Most people are familiar with modern sloths — slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammals that digest food slowly and descend only occasionally. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, a ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out why ...