Every October 20, the world slows down (at least in spirit) for International Sloth Day. It’s the perfect excuse to celebrate ...

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Two of the sloths at the National Aviary celebrated their birthdays surrounded by lots of yummy food and hundreds of guests on Thursday. It was quite the affair, with over 300 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Aubrey Borschke. Aren’t our modern lives a bit too … puritan? I mean, spending each and ...

While in India, the Kratts discover a sloth bear. But which is it - a bear or a sloth? While in India, the Wild Kratts try to figure out if a sloth bear is a bear or a sloth? They soon discover some ...

When the trailer for “Slotherhouse” was released, it went viral. How could it not? It’s a movie about a killer sloth rampaging around a sorority. It is precisely for this kind of thing that the ...