A Michigan teen learned this the hard way when she was bitten by a sloth —drawing blood — last year at a pet store that advertised encounter experiences with the animals. Trull said that the ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that had digestive systems large enough to process the huge avocado seeds whole. They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the ...

To mark the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Power of Sloth, zoologist and author of Life in the Sloth Lane, Lucy Cooke, unleashes her inner sloth to discover why being lazy could actually be the ...

A new baby sloth has been born at Jersey Zoo. Durrell said the Linne's two-toed sloth was born on Wednesday 15 January and that its sloth house would remain closed for mum Terry and her baby to bond.