Valentino, a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, is fed by trainer Christa Gaus during the media day at the National Aviary on Friday, June 17, 2016, in Pittsburgh. The young sloth weighed just over a pound at ...

Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths. Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths ...

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 ...

Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre and Wildlife SOS worked together with Wizard of Paws Derek Campana to make Vasi the rescue ...

MIAMI — Thanks to the help from staff at Zoo Miami, two sloth bear cubs have been welcomed to the world! Back on Dec. 4, a 4-year-old sloth bear named Kematee gave birth to a single cub in a den area ...

Clawd, a life-size sloth, is now on display at the Waynesboro Public Library, and the more than 7-feet tall specimen is courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Named for its formidable ...

It's always fun to catch up with the stars of Richard Donner’s seminal 80s adventure The Goonies. The young cast had more than its fair share of characters: from a teenage Josh Brolin to an ...

WASHINGTON — I'm going out on a limb, like my new sloth friend would, and making a bold prediction to kick off this new decade. In 2020, a new arrival at the National Zoo will rival Bei Bei in ...

Bean, the 6-year-old Hoffman’s two-toed sloth at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, died recently after a short illness. Bean, born in May 2019, died Wednesday after being diagnosed one week earlier with ...

The most distant known object in our solar system was found, Jupiter showed off its artistic side, and a sad accident for a 27,000-year-old giant ground sloth turned into a win for science. The most ...

Valentino is a baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth. At five months old, he weighs about as much as a cantaloupe (and only moves slightly more). Everything he does, little that may be, is beyond adorable.