These are the adorable images of baby sloths snuggling in a wheelbarrow while being cared for at the Jaguar Rescue Centre in southeastern Costa Rica. Jaguar Rescue Centre is located in the coastal town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca in the country's Limon Province, which is also a popular tourist…
This is the moment a hungry two-toed sloth realises that - even at a stretch - the lengthy arms nature gave him sometimes just are not long enough. Sloth Pono was filmed at Neo Park Okinawa, in Nago, Japan, trying to get to grips with his toucan neighbour Sansan's food.…
This is the moment when a tiny newborn sloth snuggles into its mum's fur at a zoo in Germany. The after-dark footage was filmed in Leipzig Zoo, Saxony and shows the as-yet unnamed cub for the very first time. The tot can be seen clinging tightly to its mum, Elfriede,…
This is the moment a female sloth carries its newborn cub on its back after giving birth in a public square. Residents of the city of Teofilo Otoni, in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, were surprised to see the sloth giving birth on the morning of 28th October.…
Archaeologists have found these fossilised remains of 22 elephant-sized sloths from the Ice Age preserved in asphalt. The archaeological find took place at the Tanque Loma site in the Santa Elena peninsula in western Ecuador where fossils of the Panamerican ground sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) were found. Experts at the excavation…