FOUR-ton mega-sloths with flesh-rendering claws lived alongside humans for 10,000 years, new research has found. The 20ft tall meat eating beasts were thought to have been wiped out quickly when ...

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

Kelly-Anne Kelleher with a baby sloth named "Edward" after his impressive Edward Scissorhands-like claws at London Zoo A baby sloth named "Edward" after his impressive Edward Scissorhands-like claws ...

In the natural world, claws are much more than just sharp tips– they are essential tools that help animals survive. Whether used for digging, hunting, climbing, or defending themselves, claws play a ...

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 ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, paleontologists unearthed Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a novel therizinosaur species from 90-95 million years ago. This plant-eating dinosaur, related to meat-eaters, possessed a ...

Monique Pool first fell in love with sloths when she took in an orphan from a rescue centre. Since then many sloths have spent time in her home on their way back to the forest - but even she found it ...