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 ...

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 ...

Sloths once roamed the Americas, ranging from tiny, cat-sized animals that lived in trees all the way up to massive ground sloths that may have weighed up to six tons. The only species we know and ...

Footage of one of STRI's Bocas del Toro Research Station's resident sloths climbing the trees at the Station. The star of this video is a female Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus). Video by: J.P.

The three-toed sloth, native to Central and South America, is famous for its slow-moving pace. It spends most of its life ...

The researchers found that three-toed sloths can harbor more phoretic moths than their two-toed counterparts because of greater concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and higher algal biomass in their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shelby A. Ryan receives a Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Training Priority Scheme Scholarship from the University of Newcastle. Her PhD project receives funding from WWF-Australia and Taronga Conservation ...

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 ...

"It is a three-toed sloth, not a two-toed sloth, because apparently that would be too fast..." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...