This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and ...

Sloths mate and give birth while hanging in the trees. Three-toed sloth babies are often seen clinging to their mothers—they travel by hanging on to them for the first nine months of their lives.

It’s sometimes called sloth fever because scientists who first investigated the virus found it in a three-toed sloth, which ...

Different sloth groups can be easily identified by the number of long, curved claws on their forelimbs. The two-toed sloths, as the name suggests, have two claws on their front limbs, while the ...

Three-toed sloths are the slowest mammals on Earth ... So, they don't need to eat a lot. A sloth can take up to 50 days to digest a meal. They have the slowest metabolism of any non-hibernating ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals ... There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths. All sloths are built for life in the treetops. They spend nearly all of ...

The species is notably smaller than other species of sloths. An adult pygmy three-toed sloth weighs between 5.5 and 7.7 pounds and measures 19 to 21 inches in length. Their external ear canals are ...