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

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 ...

Sloth bear rescued from 40ft well in Adilabad village after 3-hour effort by Forest and Fire department officials.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Forest officials say that the adult sloth bear from the nearby forest slipped into a dry farm well possibly while searching ...