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 ...

A new analysis of three-toed sloths’ survival in the forests of Costa Rica offers two-fold insights for scientists hoping to aid the tree-dwelling critters. As Veronique Greenwood explains for The New ...

Unless you live in the tropical rainforests of South or Central America, most of the sloths you’ll encounter will be two-toed sloths. This is because they are able to eat quite a varied diet and are ...

Spare a minute from your frenetically busy day to consider the quite different life of the three-toed sloth. It is true that the sloth, which lives in the jungles of Central and South America, would ...

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

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