(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

Sloths appear to have life figured out, and once the details are revealed, being envious makes sense. These tree-dwelling ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons and ...

For a listing and recovery biologist, it was just a regular day. United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Luke Pearson was recently doing field research in Northeast Mississippi on a species of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of ...