From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are estimated to be about 700 million dogs living with or around humans. The ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Zoo is welcoming Chrys, a male maned wolf, to its zoo family. Chrys, from Wichita, Kansas, will celebrate his 8th birthday with the Louisville Zoo on Nov. 27. “We are ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Louisville Zoo has a new member. Chrys, a maned wolf, came to Louisville from Wichita, Kansas. Zoo officials said these animals are usually solitary creatures in the wild ...

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The northern and southern maned sloths may look very similar from the outside, but their genomes reveal different stories: The two species have faced very distinct conditions in Brazil's Atlantic ...

The Northern and Southern Maned Sloths may look very similar from the outside, but their genomes reveal different stories: the two species have faced very distinct conditions in Brazil’s Atlantic ...

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 ...

In January 2022, Mongabay Latam published a story about an unusual conservation effort underway in Costa Rica: the installation of rope bridges that help sloths safely navigate fragmented forests.

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The Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, home to towering trees, tigers and lemurs, unveiled a new specially designed habitat for two sloths and three endangered squirrel-sized monkeys called golden ...