Here’s a memorable encounter between David Attenborough and a three-toed sloth, as shown in Life of Mammals. Sloths normally spend their lives hanging from high branches, but this one ambles down to ...

The world’s first-ever slotharium, ‘Sloth World,’ lets visitors get up close and personal with the world’s slowest creatures.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are six species of sloth, and they come in two varieties: two-toed and three-toed.

It’s pretty surprising to see a 27-year-old jump into her mother’s arms and insist on being held like a baby. At The Sloth Sanctuary outside of Cahuita, Costa Rica, though, such a sight is ordinary.

It’s a scientific fact that there’s nothing cuter than a baby sloth in a bucket. But even if Facebook ‘likes’ turn out not to correlate with biological fitness, sloths are a runaway success by any ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...

A bigfoot-like ground sloth had unwelcome company about 11,000 years ago. No matter which way the giant creature went, ancient humans followed it, stepping in its elongated, kidney-shaped paw prints ...