Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

Sloths are identified by the number of long, prominent claws that they have on each front foot. There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths. All sloths are built for life in the treetops.

These two-toed sloths are at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens ... Here at the zoo they go about every three days and they eat a lot of food so they have a very unique digestive system.” ...

The two-toed sloths, as the name suggests, have two claws on their front limbs, while the three-toed sloths have three claws on all four limbs. The two-toed sloths are also slightly larger than their ...

Sloths are renowned for their sleep prowess. Three-toed sloths hold the record, snoozing a whopping 15-18 hours a day! Even ...

Two sloths living at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens have a new home with the opening of Sloth Crossing, the zoo's new habitat for Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth ...

“With so few pygmy sloths left in the wild, it’s crucial they’re granted every protection under the law as soon as possible.” First identified as a distinct sloth species in 2001, pygmy three-toed ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has opened a new exhibit with two animals that move a mile a minute. The zoo is welcoming Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed ...

At least two of the captured sloths died prior to release. The most recent data on these sloths is disheartening, indicating there may be only 48 left—a significant decrease from the last estimate of ...