Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers.

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even know we were gone. Others quietly get up from the sofa, tuck a newspaper ...

Sloths have a very unusual mating call, but for a very good reason. Read here to learn about sloths mating calls, and ...

Sloths always have a slight smile on their lips, making them appear friendly and cute. These incredibly slow tree dwellers ...

The Queen gets to tell everyone what to do, and she chooses a few males to breed with, we believe,” says Kerns. “However, she can have one of the largest litters of any mammals, over 30 babies at a ...

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

Harriet Rix’s “The Genius of Trees” offers a new approach to trees, each chapter dealing with different ways trees shape the ...

Hamerton Zoo Park says the newborn is starting to take "a few swings away from mum and dad".

A conservation park has welcomed its first sloth, a two-toed three-year-old called Nova. On Friday, The Fenn Bell Conservation Project in St Mary Hoo revealed the slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammal had ...

Most people are familiar with modern sloths — slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammals that digest food slowly and descend only occasionally. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, a ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many ...