BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

U.S. health officials are warning travelers about a potentially deadly insect-borne virus known as sloth fever that has infected 21 U.S. residents returning from Cuba and thousands more in South ...

The article Baby Sloth Exhibit Opens At Elmwood Park Zoo appeared first on Norristown Patch. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall for hundreds of drawer dressers that ...

This sloth shutdown was sloooooooow moving. After 18 months, Long Island officials finally put an exotic animal store — and its seven sloths — out of business. Larry Wallach charged $50 a pop for ...

LIMA (Reuters) - The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas ...

Sloths have a reputation for being sluggish and slow, spending most of their lives dozing in trees, but a new study suggests this is one of the enduring secrets of their success. Scientists have ...

When the trailer for “Slotherhouse” was released, it went viral. How could it not? It’s a movie about a killer sloth rampaging around a sorority. It is precisely for this kind of thing that the ...

The next horror villain sensation is the world's slowest mammal. On Wednesday, Gravitas Ventures released the trailer for its new horror movie Slotherhouse, which follows a college student who adopts ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Central and South America’s sloth populations may face a dire ...

An unusual bear cub is in Cleveland, just waiting for you to find her a name. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo announced Tuesday that a sloth bear cub was born back in December. The unnamed female cub ...

(WLUK) -- The Milwaukee County Zoo says it's closing one of its animal buildings as part of a new strategic plan. The Small Mammals Building will close by the end of the year. The zoo is already in ...

A 6-year-old, two-toed sloth unexpectedly went into labor in her zoo exhibit in front of zoo goers on Wednesday, April 2 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...