Sloths show that slow living sustains nature. Protecting them means preserving the balance of forests. Their story teaches ...

World Sloth Day 2025 highlights the most fascinating facts about sloths, from their unique digestion and slow-paced lifestyle ...

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 ...

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, ...

While caring for Vasi, BBRC noticed that the bear had become accustomed to walking on three feet, but he wasn't moving ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

If patience were a superpower, sloths would wear the crown. These famously slow-moving creatures spend their days dangling ...

Udhagamandalam: Two sloth bears were found dead in the Nilgiris in the last two days. While a male sloth bear was electrocuted after coming in contact.

Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from “Spirit Whales & Sloth Tales,” a new book about Washington fossils written by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt and David B. Williams. The book will be ...

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.Video above: ...