Luckily, Toast the Narcoleptic Doodle Dog found that unlikely connection during a meet-and-greet with some truly incredible animal ambassadors from Incredible Bats. Toast met Rico, a two-toed sloth, ...

Garden snails are some of the slowest movers in the animal kingdom. Many slow animals are slow because they have lower metabolic rates, which saves energy, especially in habitats with limited ...

SINGAPORE -- A Singapore-headquartered startup that produces algae for biofuels has raised nearly $50 million from a group of Japanese investors, as it seeks to scale up its production capacity in ...

The closest algal relatives of land plants are the filamentous and unicellular conjugating algae, the zygnematophytes. This group of organisms has received major attention because when researchers ...

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

The wildlife specialist adores JJ, a sloth who seems to enjoy interacting with humans, especially if they have to snack to offer. But she’s also really fond of Yoshi, a small armadillo.

Among those animals are also some of the zoo’s newest babies: twin sloth bear cubs and two koala joeys. “I see guests with a lot more patience when they’re at the habitat,” Thomas said of ...

Zoo officials unveiled the all-new Sloth Crossing exhibit Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony after teasing the two girls from behind the scenes for months. Families carved time out of their ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has opened a new exhibit with two animals that move a mile a minute. The zoo is welcoming Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed ...

Sloth Crossing is the newest exhibit at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The zoo is home to a pair of sloths, Chata and Ruth. The new exhibit will be in the zoo's Play Park area. Two sloths ...