This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...

Luckily, Toast the Narcoleptic Doodle Dog found that unlikely connection during a meet-and-greet with some truly incredible ...

The San Diego Zoo welcomed a newborn Linné’s two-toed sloth on Feb. 8, the first of its kind to be born at the zoo since June ...

Different sloth groups can be easily identified by the number of long, curved claws on their forelimbs. The two-toed sloths, as the name suggests, have two claws on their front limbs, while the ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of ...

Sloths are identified by the number of long, prominent claws that they have on each front foot. There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths. All sloths are built for life in the treetops.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has opened a new exhibit with two animals that move a mile a minute. The zoo is welcoming Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed ...

The researchers found that three-toed sloths can harbor more phoretic moths than their two-toed counterparts because of greater concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and higher algal biomass in their ...

Classified as critically endangered and believed to have a rapidly declining population and habitat area, pygmy three-toed sloths (Bradypus pygmaeus) are native exclusively to the island of Escudo de ...