In this adorable YouTube video, a baby sloth is found crawling on the forrest floor, but how did it get there?

For centuries, people encountering sloths for the first time have reacted by ridiculing them. In 1526, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that the sloths he’d seen ...

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 ...

There are all kinds of animals present on the planet. Some of these are lightening fast while others are extremely slow. Here are some of the slowest animals in the world ...

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 ...

Baby sloth poses for the camera on the tree. Image via Depositphotos. The animals live solitary lives and travel from tree to tree using canopy vines, and are often considered to be some fo the cutest ...

A family of sloths take their food truck to the big city in this animated movie directed by Ricard Cussó and Tania Vincent. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Sloths are more vulnerable to the rising temperatures associated with climate change than other mammals, due to their unique physiology. In a new study, my colleagues and I found that sloths ...

Sloths are known for their incredibly slow metabolism, which is about 39% lower than what would be expected for a mammal of their size, according to general mammalian predictions. This adaptation ...

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 ...

Sloths are hardly the only animals to be victims of climate change. A 2021 study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that the average predicted extinction rate for freshwater ...

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 ...