Meet Alface, the new two-toed sloth at Shedd Aquarium. Learn her story and explore how she inspires rainforest conservation.

Rainforest-inspired setting in heart of Central Florida’s tourism district will house dozens of the low-energy animals, encourage research.

Sloths are notoriously slow. Living in rainforests in Central and South America, sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the trees, rarely coming down to the ground. There are two main ...

The Small Mammal House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has a new resident worth slowing down for. Visitors can now see Athena, a 1½-year-old female two-toed sloth in her new home that she shares ...

(WHTM) –The third Saturday in October is the day to contemplate the sloths, those charming creatures who remind us that the fast lane is not always the best way to travel. Get daily news, weather, ...

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 ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

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LIMA (Reuters) - The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas ...

A vulnerable sloth is seen facing off against a large dog in an image that highlights a heartbreaking conservation issue. American photographer Suzi Eszterhas entered it into the 58th Wildlife ...