Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

World Sloth Day 2025 highlights the most fascinating facts about sloths, from their unique digestion and slow-paced lifestyle to their surprising strength and swimming abilities.

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and into the forest. Sloths are typically docile and are rarely a danger to people ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. How many times have you seen an image of a sloth or a sloth portrayed in media and thought about how cute and cuddly the animal looks? Maybe you even felt a desire to ...

For a listing and recovery biologist, it was just a regular day. United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Luke Pearson was recently doing field research in Northeast Mississippi on a species of ...

The newborn two-toed sloth, nicknamed Nova, is the first animal to be born in 2023 at the London Zoo Contributor, PEOPLE There's a new sloth in town! On Thursday, the London Zoo announced the birth of ...