Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers.

Sloth selfie bans are spreading because cute photos hide stress, disease risk, and illegal wildlife trade most tourists never see.

What a dream life would be if a sloth could make every single decision we faced. Should we wear a sweater or hoodie today? (Depends on which direction the sloth reached.) Would cereal or a toaster ...

When your doctor orders three mammograms and two sonograms, and then waits one nano-beat too long before saying “biopsy,” go see a sloth. Earlier this month, that’s what I did, at the National ...

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and into the forest. Sloths are typically docile and are rarely a danger to people ...

Inside this interactive zoo, you can hold a Burmese python, cuddle with a sloth, hold a small alligator or lizard, feed and ...

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 ...

Andrew Raymer told Newsweek that he and his 13-year-old son recently had "an experience of a lifetime" when they got an up-close encounter with a sloth. Sloths have recently become increasingly ...

Some days you just want to channel your inner sloth and retreat into a sleepy, sloth-like state. Keep it slow, keep it calm. There’s something magical about the luxuriously lackadaisical sloth state ...