As the Sloth Conservation Foundation writes, Oct. 20 is "more than an excuse to take it easy, it is a day to recognize an important member of tropical ecosystems" Oh hi there! We're just hanging out ...

Let's warm up by trying on a few "human" names, starting with the boys. Since all sloths hail from the rainforests of Central and South America, many of our male sloth names come from Spanish or ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO — A fan-favorite animal family at ...

Oh my sloth! Nothing says adorable quite like photos of sloths living life to the fullest and loving every second of it. Sam Trull, co-founder and sloth director at The Sloth Institute Costa Rica, ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. Sloths are some of the most interesting animals to have ever graced the earth, and yet they remain quite the unknowable little critters. The group that contains sloths, ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. Sometimes the front pages of newspapers don’t reflect the goodness that exists in the world. It’s Slothy Sunday, the perfect way to end the weekend with a smile by ...

Sometimes you just need to stop what you're doing and appreciate a baby's sloth's love of life. Lucca, an 18-month-old, two-toed sloth, lives at the Zoological Wildlife Foundation in Miami, where one ...

A Costa Rica rescue center offers blankets and bottle-feeding at a nursery for these young animals Photographs by Annie Marie Musselman Text by Niko Zlotnik Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth babies need round ...