A striking photograph reveals the consequences of human activity on wildlife: this sloth desperately seeks refuge after ...

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

The sloth was caught on camera by a GoPro propped in a tree in Nicaragua. — -- A sloth spotted in the wilds of Nicaragua by an American tourist was just trying to take a nap, but first, it ...

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 ...

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

Classifying all these sloths has been a challenge for decades. Now, findings from two different papers reveal that some of the longstanding consensus on the sloth family tree may not be accurate.

Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day. The study, by an ...

Sloths have a very slow digestive system, and they only need to leave the tree canopy to use the bathroom once a week. But there's more to the story than just the interval between bathroom breaks.

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to ...