Giant Sloths’ Hairy Truth Revealed by Scientists

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey

Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be…

A Lifeboat to London for Darwin’s Frogs

The folk song “Frog Went a-Courtin’” recounts the efforts of a sword- and pistol-toting frog to woo a mouse, who warns him that without the consent of her Uncle Rat…

In the Land of the Jaguars

I was prepared to wait, to soak up the magical morning light as our small motorboat traveled up the Rio São Lourenço in the Pantanal, Brazil’s vast wetlands. A tangle…

Geriatric Penguins Get a ‘Retirement Home’ at New England Aquarium

Good etiquette is expected at meal time in the penguin colony, but the diners with the best manners are found on a new, special island for birds of a certain…