When you begin to think of the cutest animals in nature, a sloth may not immediately come to mind, but that’s probably ...

Their hook-like claws and strong limbs help them navigate treetops, or crawling up their caretaker's legs! Sloths have a super slow metabolic rate. They can spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping and ...

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 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 ...

A baby sloth snuggles into its mum in cute pictures released by Dudley Zoo of its latest new arrival. ... with baby sloths crawling onto the mum's stomach, where it remains for the next six months.

Sloths, which have become a popular encounter experience, can actually pose a risk to the general public who are allowed to hold or pet them, experts warn. Alamy Stock Photo ...

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 ...