The baby grasps the abdominal hair of the mother ... yards per day or less than half the length of a football field. Sloths eat leaves, twigs and buds. As they do not have incisors, they trim ...

Skin parasites Captive sloths have sometimes been diagnosed with scabies, which is caused by the mite parasite Sarcoptes scabiei. Flesh-eating parasites Leishmaniasis is a disease carried by animals.

A new Ice Age movie is in the works. The movie will be the sixth installment in the core computer-animated franchise about a ...

When people think of cute baby animals ... to sloths, this species of anteater is terrestrial in nature, and can grow to over ...

If a baby sloth is orphaned, several things could go wrong: Depending on their age, they may not be able to climb trees. Without her, they take longer to learn what is and isn't safe to eat. They ...

In fact, the sloth only defecates around one time per week ... She then lays her eggs in the still-living spider and buries the carcass. When the eggs hatch, the baby tarantula hawks eat the living ...

We watched polar bears in wire muzzles ballroom dancing across the ice under a big top in Russia and teenage boys on the Amazon River snapping selfies with baby sloths. Most tourists who enjoy ...

Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable.

Experts say that humans are drawn to creatures with big soulful eyes and furry softness and that they speak to our nurturing ...

Jan fathered a whopping 22 sloth pups at Krefeld, with its partners Lolita and Trine. Its age didn’t stop him from fathering the last kid, a baby girl, in March of this year. According to Guinness ...

Megalodon, the giant shark species that disappeared around 3.6 million years ago, was the most ferocious creature that ever lived. What do we know about it?

He has the summer that most children dream of and spends it riding around on his scooter, eating ice cream ... journey to reunite a human baby with its family. Among them are a woolly mammoth named ...