Off the coast of Tonga, a rare white humpback whale swims closely alongside its mother. Photographer Jono Allen caught the extraordinary moment in a photograph (seen below) that just earned top honors ...

Melbourne is proudly the world’s sporting capital — but a new study reveals we can also lay claim to being the vinyl capital, with more record shops per-capita than anywhere in the world.

Sloths, those endearing slow-moving mammals of the tropical rainforests, have captured human hearts worldwide with what appears to be their perpetual gentle smile. Their curved mouths and seemingly ...

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

Credit: RZSS/Cover Images Edinburgh Zoo’s animals have received adorable handmade Valentine’s Day gifts to mark the romantic ...

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers. Incredibly slow-moving and methodical, Flash Slothmore and the rest of his ...

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It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

The world’s largest palaeoburrow is located in the Amazon Rainforest and is so long it’d take you roughly 20 minutes to walk from one end to the other… The largest of these tunnels are 2m high, 4m ...

First Look: Meet dozens of sloths at new Orlando Slotharium Do you love sloths? Want to see some up close? There's a spot where you'll be able to see dozens of sloths in a cage-free environment. This ...

Whether you want to get creative and make your own box or are ready to buy one that's ready to go, this list has a ...

It looks like a bumbling, cuddly teddy bear. It eats mainly tiny ants and termites and a bit of fruit. So it can’t be deadly to anything else, right? Wrong. Sloth bears have a nasty habit of going on ...