Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

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Lemurs and monkeys—two cuddly-looking primates—may have captured your fancy as a child. It’s also possible you didn’t realize that lemurs were different from monkeys. After all, the two general ...

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Its original owner is a giant ground sloth that lived during the early Holocene era, soon after the retreat of the 3,000-foot-thick Cordilleran ice sheet. Its Puget Lobe, extending from Canada to ...

In the dense mangroves of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the coast of Panama, resides one of the world’s most endearing and enigmatic creatures: the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus ...

For every overly cute creature like the Shawn-the-sheep nudibranch, there are strange and weird creatures like the red-fronted lemur. This lemur, while cute from a distance, does something ...

He and other researchers suspect that the scars were carved by giant ground sloths that roamed the region until they went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. “This is an archaeological and ...

Although you'll have ample opportunities to spot lemurs in national parks like Mantadia and Lokobe, for even more chances to see these furry creatures, travel 16 miles southwest of Antananarivo to ...