The Edinburgh Zoo has launched a cuteness contest between Haggis, its newborn pygmy hippo, and Moo Deng, the adorable mini ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our ...

Classified as critically endangered and believed to have a rapidly declining population and habitat area, pygmy three-toed sloths (Bradypus pygmaeus) are native exclusively to the island of Escudo de ...

While sloths may be cute, especially when randomly hanging on to the wheel of a car, the Sloth Conservation Foundation notes that wild sloths "do not crave or seek out human contact" and can ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials ...

The maned three-toed sloth is vulnerable, while the pygmy three-toed sloth is critically endangered and the sloth species at greatest risk of extinction. Sloths are primarily folivores, feeding mostly ...

The bouncy baby pygmy hippo has been known to wreak ... this post on Instagram Have you ever seen a baby sloth? Did you know they were this cute? I wasn’t aware until I came across Molé ...

Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined ...

Perhaps a better reason to acquire this small expansion pack, however, is for two fascinating species, the Komodo Dragon and ...

Heather Ewart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Sloths are more vulnerable to the rising temperatures associated with climate change than other mammals, due to their unique physiology. In a new study, my colleagues and I found that sloths’ ability ...