French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 ...

Take a peek at the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. Read on to learn about life in ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has removed a second giant stuffed sloth from a tree over Interstate 5 (I-5) near Bellingham.

It turns out the sloth, a notoriously slow moving animal, can actually move pretty fast. Particularly when a baby sloth’s life is dangling in the balance — quite literally. A tour group in ...

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

Sloths Can Keep Their Grip on a Tree Even After Death Sloths are so good at hanging upside-down from trees with their perfectly curved claws that they sometimes can continue to hang from a branch ...

A pair of studies published June 6, 2019 have shaken up the sloth family tree, overturning a longstanding consensus on how the major groups of sloths are related. According to the results, the ...

Where Sloths Find These Branches, Their Family Trees Expand A study showed that when some animals find a crucial resource, they can survive in changing environments and even thrive. Share full ...