Experienced hiker Christos Stavrianidis was venturing into the forest in central Macedonia, Greece with another veteran ...

On June 19, 2025, a sloth bear approached a tour truck in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. It bit a hole into the front-right ...

In the system, underwater archaeologists found the 15,000-year-old remains of giant sloths, proto-elephants called gomphotheres, and bears, as well as an elaborate shrine to the Maya god of war ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

Giant sloths used to roam all over North America. Over 10 times bigger than today’s sloths, many lived on the ground instead of in the trees and their closest living relatives are actually ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out ...

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 digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

Sloth bears are native to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal where their numbers are falling. It is hoped work on the new habitat at the zoo will be completed by summer 2025 and the two male bears will ...

Yang Guang was one of the two giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo (Jane Barlow/PA) David Field, RZSS chief executive, said: “The sloth bears’ forest and grassland homes are vanishing and many fall ...