SEATTLE — The Highline Heritage Museum is hosting its annual Sloth Festival on October 18, celebrating the region’s own giant ground sloth with family-friendly exhibits, hands-on activities, and a ...

We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about Virginia's past. They tell us about a big creature ... with a big name attached.

A sloth bear who lost a foot to a snare trap is back to walking on four legs thanks to his dedicated caretakers. Vasikaran, also known as "Vasi," the sloth bear, was originally a wild animal roaming ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The earliest humans to inhabit the Cape Fear began doing so thousands of years ago. But the region had other mammals who called the area home long before that.

Sloths once came in a variety of sizes and lived in multiple settings in many parts of the world. A study in the journal Science examined sloth evolution over the past 35 million years, investigated ...

A new study by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) has revealed significant ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons and ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to three Linnaeus's two-toed sloths and shares some sloth basics, but here are three lesser-known sloth facts. 1. The Smithsonian has a collection of fossilized ...

Shark Week? In this year 2026, that’s kind of played out. Sloth Month? Now there’s something we can (very slowly) get behind. This winter, the Children’s Natural History Museum in Fremont acquired a ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...