Today is International Sloth Day—a day to celebrate these enigmatic creatures, raise awareness for the species and perhaps take a leaf out of their book, enjoy some downtime and take things slow. The ...

Spare a minute from your frenetically busy day to consider the quite different life of the three-toed sloth. It is true that the sloth, which lives in the jungles of Central and South America, would ...

The mother 3-toed sloth climbed down from the tree she was in after hearing her baby's call Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Footage of a sloth being born and then dangling from the umbilical cord from a tree has been shared by the tourist guide who filmed it. The newborn sloth can be seen falling and dangling in the air ...

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

The National Zoo's Small Mammal House has a new resident: Athena the two-toed sloth. The 1.5-year-old shares her home with the zoo's golden lion tamarins, an aracari and Vlad, a 34-year-old male ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --International Sloth Day, marked annually on Oct. 20, was founded by nonprofit animal protection organization AIUNAU in 2010. AIUNAU said members Sarita Kendall and Tinka Plese came up ...