Bustos at White Sands National Monument in Holloman Air Force Base, NM, and colleagues was titled, "Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America." ...

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo announced Tuesday that a sloth bear cub was born back in December. The unnamed female cub weighed 16 ounces at birth and spent time bonding with her mother Shiva.

And the White Sands footprints preserve a few moments of their early interactions. As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it ...

Learn about the tracks and footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, possibly representing the earliest evidence of human-made transportation technology.

Sloth Crossing is the newest exhibit at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The zoo is home to a pair of sloths, Chata and Ruth. The new exhibit will be in the zoo's Play Park area. Two sloths ...

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.

During the Ice Age, some mammals were particularly large. The giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until ...