Former home of giant pandas to be turned into habitat for sloth bears - It is hoped the new habitat will be ready by this summer.

It will be the first time the zoo welcomes the vulnerable species, which is at risk of extinction due to poaching and habitat loss.

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth traveled across a barren, arid landscape in what is now Belize, munching on grassy vegetation and searching for water. A nearby sinkhole may have ...

Edinburgh Zoo has announced that it will welcome sloth bears for the first time. On Tuesday, the zoo revealed that it is working to build a habitat for the vulnerable species. Once complete, sloth ...

Jens Christian Svenning at a fossilized skeleton of a giant ground sloth, Lestodon armatus, on display in the Natural History Museum, New York Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only ... There is even evidence to suggest that several different species of marine sloth existed, feeding from sea grass and seaweed in shallow ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

The rib bone of an extinct giant sloth discovered in January at the future Dollar Tree site in Rogersville is now a part of ...

When a giant fossilized claw was discovered in West ... That claw didn’t belong to a fearsome meat eater, but to a massive, cumbersome sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii). Not cute and endearing ...