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 ...

Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out ...

WSDOT scales 90-foot tree for stuffed sloth “Slothy” was taken down last month after hanging out in the tree for almost a year. WSDOT isn’t sure who put “Slothy” up but said the stuffed ...

When you're a dog with narcolepsy, life moves at a different pace compared to the average canine. It's challenging to be always ready for a sudden nap, making it tough to keep up with high-energy ...

Everyone knows sloths are slow, but not everyone realizes just how slow they are. According to the Smithsonian's National Zoo, a sloth's metabolic rate is only 40-45% of what would be expected for ...

Two sloths living at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens have a new home with the opening of Sloth Crossing, the zoo's new habitat for Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, and Chata ...

A Sloth Story Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. In theaters. A Sloth Story. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

After leaving his car windows open overnight, the man documented his adorable sloth encounter in a now-viral video Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE ...

The world's oldest sloth, Jan, has breathed its last at 54, in a German zoo, leaving the caretakers of the zoo heartbroken, as some of them cared for it for over 25 years.In his 54 glorious years ...

From January to the start of August, more than 8,000 “sloth fever” cases have been reported. There were 832 recorded in 2023. Of these 8,000 cases, two deaths were recorded in Brazil in July.