The Golden Girls star Betty White couldn’t have a big party for her last birthday due to the pandemic. However, the lifelong animal lover was ”thrilled” when she received a ”surprise guest sloth” to ...

Millions of years before the White Sands National Monument became a stark landscape of gypsum sand dunes, it was the site of a salty sea. When those waters evaporated about 12,000 years ago, they left ...

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT - An Ice Age trackway at White Sands National Monument is gaining a national spotlight, thanks to a recent scientific publication about a likely giant-sloth hunt that was ...

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed ...

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

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My daughter and I recently went for the Sloth Encounter at the Gulf Coast Zoo in Gulf Shores after my husband gave her tickets for Christmas and made a donation for their care. The zoo, billed as “The ...

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