It’s a baby only a mother could love. A rare wide-eyed pygmy slow loris — with eyes as big as its ears and a sleep cycle that would drive even the most patient parents bonkers — has become the first ...

Sloth World is rapidly approaching a grand opening on Orlando’s International Drive, its executives say. The 7,500-square-foot facility will be home to more than 40 sloths living in a ...

In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...

Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky equipment and a good deal of patience. DwarfLab's book-sized smart telescopes have ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Phoenix Zoo is mourning the loss of a beloved animal that has been a zoo staple for eight years. Zoo officials announced on Sunday that Fernando, a Linne’s two-toed sloth, ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...

Rescuers in Venezuela recently saved a sloth trapped on electrical lines, a scene that played out on social media and drew attention to a wider problem plaguing wildlife in the region. The animal, ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

The DWARFLAB DWARF 3 is a great imaging tool for beginner astrophotographers who want to skip the traditional astrophotography camera and go straight for an affordable smart telescope. Why you can ...

Scientists set up trail cameras near a canopy walkway in Peru and recorded several mammal species, including a “dwarf”-like creature, photos show. Photo from J. Santiago via Santiago and Swierk (2025) ...