This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has removed a second giant stuffed sloth from a tree over Interstate 5 (I-5) near ...

A striking photograph reveals the consequences of human activity on wildlife: this sloth desperately seeks refuge after ...

1. There are two groups of sloths in the world: Those with two claws on their front limbs and those with three claws on all four of their limbs. In total, six sloth species are found in the Americas, ...

Just over a year after this sloth was found on the side of the road, it's learning to climb with great speed and agility. The adorable sloth was just a few months old when it was rescued, but has ...

Look closely up in the trees of a shade-grown cacao plantation in eastern Costa Rica, and you’ll see an array of small furry faces peering back at you. Those are three-toed sloths that make their ...

Though the Shasta ground sloth went extinct approximately 12,000 years ago, we know their diet included Joshua trees because preserved sloth dung found in caves contained seeds, leaves and fruits of ...

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 ...

Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths in Costa Rica. I love climbing trees. I just love to be in the tree, like, I could be up there for ho ...

Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear. As their habitat shrinks, India's forest communities are finding ways to co-exist ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Here’s your excuse to sloooooowwww dowwwnnnn this Friday: It’s International Sloth Day. To celebrate the holiday, we compiled 9 things to know about the sluggish tree-dwellers, ...