The Henry Doorly Zoo announced its 23-year-old female sloth bear is entering end of life care. Kara was diagnosed with an ...

A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 ...

A partial skull of a 10-foot-tall ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was discovered in Ellis County, Kansas, providing new ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

U.S. Navy vet James Nash's final wish to see zoo animals came true at Sprenger Health Rose Lane Nursing & Rehabilitation ...

A Texas road project unearthed remains of Ice Age era animals. Here's what they found, and what will happen to the remains.

An adorable baby sloth! San Diego Zoo introduced the world to the zoo's newest family member, a baby sloth named Cashew.

Sloths have a reputation for being sluggish and slow, spending most of their lives dozing in trees, but a new study suggests ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

They had “very large claws on their forelimbs” and were “covered in thick hair,” the Illinois State Museum said.

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...