An exotic animal exhibitor who was shut down in New York is now attempting to bring his controversial animals to South Florida.

Orange County commissioners and department heads have admitted they don’t know what’s inside Orange County warehouses. That ...

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Picture yourself walking through the ancient Americas many millennia ago. You will see no farms or villages that we have come to expect in our understanding of history.

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When most people imagine a sloth, they picture a slow, harmless animal hanging upside down in a tree. They are famous for ...

Not that I want to bump into an alligator, shark, or bear (by some measurements, the mosquito is the most dangerous animal in ...

Como Park Zoo & Conservatory’s baby Hoffman's two-toed sloth has been named Cusi after a campus-wide vote. Cusi, meaning "joy" in Quechua, was born May 6 and is thriving with mom Sago. Staff still do ...

The Como Zoo says it has picked the name for its baby Hoffman's two-toed sloth. Cusi (pronounced Koo-see) was born on May 6 and is "extremely active, as far as sloths go," according to Zookeeper Em ...

One of St. Paul’s newest slowpokes has a name. The sloth born May 6 at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory will be called Cusi, from a Quechua word for “joy,” the zoo announced this week. Cusi is the ...

A long and dangerous heat wave will blast a large swath of the United States this week, the National Weather Service said, with temperatures rising ahead of the July Fourth holiday and feeling even ...

Here's a fact we bet you didn't know. During the Pleistocene geological epoch, which started 2.58 million years ago and ended around the time of the last ice age (11,700 years ago), avocados survived ...