The Erie Zoo is welcoming a new and permanent resident from the St. Louis Aquarium, a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth named Coconut.

Slows are famous for being SLOW. They move slowly and sleep a LOT! This general lethargy is reflected in their digestive ...

Around the world on October 20, International Sloth Day, and every day here in Baltimore, where clusters of children crane their necks and squeal “I saw it! I saw it!” I craned my neck, too.

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

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.

A cooling, drying climate turned sloths into giants – before humans potentially drove the huge animals to extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through ...

A 6-year-old, two-toed sloth unexpectedly went into labor in her zoo exhibit in front of zoo goers on Wednesday, April 2 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The survival of sloths is under threat due to climate change, according to a new study. The famously slow-moving — and adorable — creatures of Central and South America could die out if ...

Central and South America’s sloth populations may face a dire existential threat from climate change by the end of the century. New research published on September 27 in the journal PeerJ ...