There’s a place where the neon glow meets the desert sunset, where the Colorado River carves its way through rust-colored mountains, and where nobody’s in a hurry to be anywhere—and that place is ...

CITES, the global wildlife trade regulation, has agreed to implement stricter rules for the trade in two sloth species increasingly targeted by the tourism industry. Thanks to its peaceful and ...

Two species of sloths — Linnaeus' and Hoffman's — have been granted new international protections at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in ...

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Santa’s Workshop Experience at ICON Park. Read full article: Prepare for what could be a frigid New Year’s in Central Florida after a pleasant Christmas Agreement remains subject to ratification, ...

Athena suffered from early-onset chronic kidney disease, which made it hard for her to keep weight on, zoo officials said (Facebook/Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) The ...

The couple got together in 2001, with Kournikova giving birth to twins Nicholas and Lucy, as well as daughter Mary, in 2017 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., announced the death of Athena, a 7-year-old sloth. The animal, a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, died on Nov. 13 after a “sudden and irreversible decline ...

Multiple animals were on the agenda at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, a meeting that occurred in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The purpose of this meeting was for governments to ...

Here's something we don't feature nearly enough of on Boing Boing: SLOTH ASMR. In fact, you may have never realized that sloths - who are so notoriously slow-moving - actually make some of the cutest ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

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