The Harpy Eagle is one of the most fearsome and majestic birds to ever soar the skies. Known for its massive talons, capable of crushing bones and dragging prey twice its size from the trees, it has ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.

A harpy eagle spreads its wings. Source: YouTube, Uploads: Real Science. The powerful harpy soars beneath the forest canopy, using its formidable talons to capture monkeys and sloths weighing up to 17 ...

For centuries, people encountering sloths for the first time have reacted by ridiculing them. In 1526, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that the sloths he’d seen ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer ...

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.

A harpy eagle’s nest. Image by feathers0510 via Depositphotos. As solitary hunters, harpy eagles rely on an acute sense of sight and extraordinary flight skills to pursue prey. They predominantly hunt ...

Incidents involving dog attacks against U.S. Postal Service workers rose to more than 6,000 cases last year — a jump of at least 200 cases since 2023, the USPS said.

Most birds are known for their speed and agility, not their strength. But there are a few species that have both. Here’s the bird that rules the roost when it comes to measuring strength in flight.