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.

CLEVELAND (WJW) — A female sloth bear who had just turned 1 in December has died, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo announced ...

Sometimes it nice to just kick back and take it slow. Really slow. So what if evolution had the same mindset, and decided to ...

What a dream life would be if a sloth could make every single decision we faced. Should we wear a sweater or hoodie today? (Depends on which direction the sloth reached.) Would cereal or a toaster ...

Inside this interactive zoo, you can hold a Burmese python, cuddle with a sloth, hold a small alligator or lizard, feed and ...

When your doctor orders three mammograms and two sonograms, and then waits one nano-beat too long before saying “biopsy,” go see a sloth. Earlier this month, that’s what I did, at the National ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

Andrew Raymer told Newsweek that he and his 13-year-old son recently had "an experience of a lifetime" when they got an up-close encounter with a sloth. Sloths have recently become increasingly ...

Sloths are notoriously slow. Living in rainforests in Central and South America, sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the trees, rarely coming down to the ground. There are two main ...

The next horror villain sensation is the world's slowest mammal. On Wednesday, Gravitas Ventures released the trailer for its new horror movie Slotherhouse, which follows a college student who adopts ...

Some days you just want to channel your inner sloth and retreat into a sleepy, sloth-like state. Keep it slow, keep it calm. There’s something magical about the luxuriously lackadaisical sloth state ...