As the Sloth Conservation Foundation writes, Oct. 20 is "more than an excuse to take it easy, it is a day to recognize an important member of tropical ecosystems" Oh hi there! We're just hanging out ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Thursday was a special day at Zoo Knoxville when people gathered to celebrate the birthday of one of their slowest moving and sleepiest animals — Joe Sloth. He turned 3 years old on ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. Sloths are some of the most interesting animals to have ever graced the earth, and yet they remain quite the unknowable little critters. The group that contains sloths, ...

Combining crisp photographs of sloths moving about a forest canopy with bite-size observations about sloth life, this smartly paced collaboration by the late Pulley Sayre and husband Sayre follows ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As I share this with you, it is the ...

We didn’t post a Slothy Sunday yesterday, so this post from Lonely Planet will just have to suffice:”Cuteness overload!” the caption reads.Costa Rica is a dream destination, with epic surfing, misty ...

Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today. A baby sloth born less than a month ago is receiving ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Florida bans import of sloths after 55 die at Sloth World. The temporary ban aims to change rules and ensure proper care for ...