Thousands of years ago, ground sloths as massive as elephants roamed the Americas. Their history, marked by spectacular ...

There’s a house in Manatee County where it seems time passes more slowly or pauses altogether. Tucked away on 30 acres along ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground, ...

33. See cougars, capybaras, jaguars, tigers, tapirs, bears, otters, koalas, kookaburas and more at the Palm Beach Zoo. Bring swimsuits for the zoo's fountain and splash pad. Bring your appetite for ...

Sandra Torres, vice president of marketing and communications for the zoo, told The Independent Tuesday that larger animals such as elephants ... ll look for downed trees, fencing and debris ...

KANNIYAKUMARI: As elephants damaged hundreds of banana and coconut trees near the foothills of Thelanthi in Kanniyakumari, affected farmers are demanding compensation from the forest department.

In parts of Southern Africa, elephants engage in “hedging” by breaking off the branches of hardwood mopane trees, snapping their trunks in two or pushing them over. Consequently, large areas ...

Other animals closely related to elephants include manatees and dugongs (a marine ... which incentivizes farmers to plant orange trees around their homes and garden plots; elephants dislike ...