A baby sloth named Honey, who lives at Beavers Bend Safari Park in Hochatown, Oklahoma, is stealing hearts left and right and breaking the internet, and once you see this adorable video, you’ll ...

Most animals relieve themselves regularly, but sloths drop down from trees just once a week for this task. They use the same spot every time, which makes them vulnerable to predators. Scientists still ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger," ...

Rainforest-inspired setting in heart of Central Florida’s tourism district will house dozens of the low-energy animals, encourage research.

Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is welcoming the facility’s newest – if not the slowest – member of the animal community. The Linne’s two-toed sloth pup, whose gender is not yet known, was born ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

A sloth perches languidly on a branch in one of Costa Rica’s vast forest preserves. (Gabriella Chavez/WUFT News) LA FORTUNA, COSTA RICA — Near a lively stretch of Highway 142, one of Costa Rica’s ...

Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out why ...

People expect sloths to behave like other tree-dwelling animals. Their body temperature changes with the environment, and ...