In 2025, children from across UK submitted their stories into 500 Words. Read some of the finalists from this year’s competition.

Punch the Japanese macaque clings to his orange orangutan plush for comfort, and now millions of adults want one too. Here's where to get it.

Got a kid who loves filling their room with plushies for days? Are you a kid at heart who wants to take a plushie with you everywhere you go? Pokémon fans fall into both of these categories, and there ...

Sloths are some pretty interesting animals. Beyond their reputation for being slow, a host of different traits reveals a lot about their evolution and behaviors. Take for example their mating calls.

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

THE Masked Singer’s Sloth was unmasked as none other than adventurer Ben Fogle in tonight’s semi-final. The ITV singing show returned on Saturday as the remaining batch of contestants performed once ...

It looks like a bumbling, cuddly teddy bear. It eats mainly tiny ants and termites and a bit of fruit. So it can’t be deadly to anything else, right? Wrong. Sloth bears have a nasty habit of going on ...

A newborn sloth at a zoo has been named Clawdia after The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman and deemed a "faithful" by her keepers. Hamerton Zoo Park, in Hamerton, Cambridgeshire, said it had welcomed ...

A preview of the world’s first and only “slotharium” opening this month in Orlando. Conservation and education are the focus at Sloth World, where guests are invited to view and learn about sloths in ...