Four of these were species of ground sloth, three of which unknown to science.. Sloths are notable for their low energy levels and slow, deliberate movements (hence their name). They are part of a ...

Stone Zoo in Stoneham welcomes a Linne’s two-toed sloth pup, born to Lunesta and Nero. The baby, their eighth, is thriving ...

Everything from feeding, sleeping, resting to mating and giving birth happens in the trees. But there are times when even sloths must leave the comfort of their tree canopies and descend to the ground ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Sloths are known for being incredibly slow. In fact, they are the slowest mammals in the world. Although they can stand, they ...

Experts fear that the rare and elusive species may be dying of some disease, suspected to be African swine fever.

After watching over drivers on northbound Interstate 5 near Bellingham for more than a year, a giant stuffed sloth had its last day atop a tree near Lake Samish on Tuesday. Sloths aren’t native ...

Suzi Eszterhas (USA) captures an encounter between a sloth and a dog. The brown-throated sloth had already made it across a road, but to reach the next clump of trees it needed to return to the ground ...