Sloths show that slow living sustains nature. Protecting them means preserving the balance of forests. Their story teaches ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

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. But ...

New research on the evolutionary relationships between tree sloths and their extinct giant relatives is challenging decades of widely accepted scientific research. A team of international researchers ...

Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day. The study, by an international ...

Dr. Rebecca Cliffe is a Sloth Conservation Biologist and Founder and Director of the Sloth Conservation Foundation. I've been following her on Instagram for a while because she always shares ...

The sloth was caught on camera by a GoPro propped in a tree in Nicaragua. — -- A sloth spotted in the wilds of Nicaragua by an American tourist was just trying to take a nap, but first, it had to ...

After a baby sloth fell from a tree in Venezuela, its mother struggled to climb down to rescue the pup because the trunk of ...

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to ...