A Florida zoo captured the moment a newborn baby sloth met his dad for the first time, with the record-setting parents among the oldest sloths ever documented.

Slow-moving, strategic sloths. Suzi Eszterhas, www.suzieszterhas.com, Author provided Conventional wisdom has it that sloths are simple, lazy creatures that do very little other than sleep all day.

Once a week, three-toed sloths slowly descend from the leafy forest canopy to poop on the ground. Why do these sluggish mammals go on such a long and potentially dangerous journey instead of just ...

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 ...