A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Say hello to Ruth and Chata, the two newest animals on display at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. Zoo officials unveiled the all-new Sloth Crossing exhibit Saturday with a ...

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how they interacted with giant mammals Chihiro Kai 14,000 years ago, an early ...