A grizzly old time is being had at the Ohio zoo as staff tend to a newborn sloth bear and drum up help for what to name her.

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...

So, on the ground, they move by digging in with their claws and dragging themselves with their muscular arms. Some researchers estimate a sloth can only travel 1-5 feet per minute. The reason ...

In fact, they are the slowest mammals in the world. Although they can stand, they cannot walk. So, on the ground, they move by digging in with their claws and dragging themselves with their muscular ...

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

It was a European zoologist, George Shaw, who named the sloth bear for its long, thick claws and unusual teeth. He thought that the bear was related to the tree sloth due to these features," the ...

In real life, Therizinosaurus was a slow-moving herbivore that had long claws but only used them to pull leaves closer to its mouth. Its beak wasn’t designed to tear flesh but was instead used to ...

Sloth Crossing is the newest exhibit at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The zoo is home to a pair of sloths, Chata and Ruth. The new exhibit will be in the zoo's Play Park area. Two sloths ...

thick claws and unusual teeth. Thomas said some of the adaptations that allow them to eat insects are missing incisors on the upper jaw and the ability to close their nostrils. Notably, sloth ...