In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. – A new International Drive attraction is inviting guests to slow down and enjoy the cute things in life. Opening in February 2026, Sloth World, the world’s first and only “Slotharium” ...

CITES, the global wildlife trade regulation, has agreed to implement stricter rules for the trade in two sloth species increasingly targeted by the tourism industry. Thanks to its peaceful and ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

The Zootopia 2 release date is less than two months away, and there’s a lot to be excited about with one of the big upcoming 2025 movies left on the release calendar. CinemaBlend had the chance to ...

The Erie Zoo welcomed a Linneaus’s two-toed sloth named Coconut from the St. Louis Aquarium. Zoo officials believe the Erie Zoo environment will be better suited for Coconut. Coconut arrived earlier ...

For years, it's been assumed that sloths don't fart. But new footage of a baby sloth letting rip in a water bath has shown that, contrary to popular belief, these tree-dwellers are actually incredibly ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denverites willing to brave the heat and visit the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance this summer may be able to sneak a peek at a new baby sloth snoozing and ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger," ...