Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in St. Paul announced its 6-year-old Hoffman’s two-toed sloth, Sago, gave birth in her exhibit on April 2 in the middle of a normal day at the zoo.

Chata and Baby Ruth, the two-toed sloths living at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, are moving to new quarters. Here's what you should know.

All modern day sloths are tree-dwelling, suspensorial mammals, spending most of their lives hanging motionless or slowly moving between tree branches using their long, curved claws. Everything from ...

DID you know that sloths sleep up to 15 hours a day? And even when they are awake, they barely move at all and when they do, they are mind-numbingly slow. It is true! Sloths are so incredibly ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloths move slowly at 0.24 km/h but swim well; their grip muscles excel over pushing, making ground travel difficult. Galápagos tortoises are large, slow movers ...

In the rainforest, sloths move very slowly between trees high in the canopy, feeding on young leaves. They descend only to defecate, about once every five days. But with increasing habitat loss and ...

Sloths are known for being incredibly slow. In fact, they are the slowest mammals in the world. Although they can stand, they cannot walk. So, on the ground, they move by digging in with their ...

At most, they weigh 300 pounds. They are not related to sloths, and they are not slow moving, according to the San Diego Zoo. "In fact, they’re agile bears that can run faster than a human and ...

The two slow-moving mammals joined the zoo last year. The new sloth habitat comes as work continues on the zoo's $52 million Rezoovenation campaign to add a reimagined entrance, manatee exhibit ...