I long wondered why everyone raved about the small Latin American country—then my first visit turned into a new lease on life ...

After a 15-hour flight from Sydney to Dallas, a half-delirious stopover, a bumpy flight to Houston and an-hour long drive to ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.

Ancient sloths lived in trees, mountains, deserts, boreal forests, and open savannas. These habitat differences mainly explain the wide variation in size among sloth species. Illustration by Diego ...

The Caribbean coast, particularly around Puerto Viejo and the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, offers exceptional viewing opportunities. Manuel Antonio National Park presents another prime location, ...

New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought their downfall.

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 ...

They collected data on sloth anatomy, location, diet, and lifestyle. At the Florida Museum, Narducci measured 117 limb bones from their vast collection of North American and Caribbean sloths – the ...

Sloths originated and primarily evolved in South America, but they made it to the Caribbean and Florida in the late Miocene.

Two species survived in the Caribbean until around 4,500 years ago—until humans wiped them out. Now, sloths mostly keep to Central and South America, but thankfully aren’t on the menu anymore.