The sloth, named Fezzik after a character in The Princess Bride, is 10 years old and arrived from Milwaukee County Zoo.

Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear. As their habitat shrinks, India's forest communities are finding ways to co-exist ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

Sloths weren’t always sleepy tree-dwellers. In the Ice Age, they grew to the size of elephants and defended themselves with razor-sharp claws. These overpowered giants once dominated landscapes before ...

Homer the sloth has a new home, and he's brought his favorite tree along. The Detroit's Zoo's 25-year-old Hoffman's two-toed sloth relocated from Detroit Zoo's National Amphibian Conservation ...

4. They are incredibly picky when it comes to pooping Sloths, like all living things, need to defecate, which usually happens once per week. Pooping while hanging upside down might seem like an easier ...

A pregnant sloth which was injured after falling out of a tree has been given a caesarean section in a bid to save her tiny baby. The female brown-throated sloth was rescued by the founder of the ...

Unjustly defamed by their association with a deadly sin, sloths have shaken off their bad press to become one of the world's most beloved tree-hugging mammals. In Natural Histories: Sloth, Brett ...

The adorable sloth was just a few months old when it was rescued, but has excelled at climbing. He's currently being looked after at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica.

The lethargic two-foot-long tree-hugging sloths of the South and Central American tropics are small fry compared with one of their extinct relatives. Megatherium americanum, a ground sloth, stood 12 ...