The former home of the giant pandas which previously lived at Edinburgh Zoo is being transformed into a habitat for sloth bears. It will be the first time the zoo welcomes the vulnerable species, ...

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

Archeologists in Mexico have found fossils of extinct animals in a cenote in Umán, Yucatán, including those of a giant sloth and prehistoric horses. Speleologist (cave researcher) Cristián ...

Mar 3, 2025 Mar 3, 2025 Updated Mar 6, 2025 The rib bone of an extinct giant sloth discovered in January at the future Dollar Tree site in Rogersville is now a part of the collection at the Gray ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled such a formidable prey.

I say: Cowards! If we can accept that Stitch can be mistaken for a dog by reasonable observers, it is not a stretch to maintain that a four-eyed giant sloth man and a living sticky-hand toy could ...

Despite their exalted status and relative lack of natural predators, pandas are still at risk. Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild. The panda, with its distinctive ...

the giant pandas and red pandas. Among those animals are also some of the zoo’s newest babies: twin sloth bear cubs and two koala joeys. “I see guests with a lot more patience when they’re ...

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo announced Tuesday that a sloth bear cub was born back in December. The unnamed female cub weighed 16 ounces at birth and spent time bonding with her mother Shiva.

The sloth in the video above appears to be an adult pale-throated three-toed sloth, or Bradypus tridactylus. Their native habitat is the canopies of tropical rainforests in Central and South America.