The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of ...

The zoo announced Missy, a Linnae's two-toed sloth now calls Racine home. Missy the sloth is 28 years old. She made the trip from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo to the Racine Zoo in the late spring.

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 ...

If you have plans to visit your favorite animal friends today, you'll have to make new arrangements. According to Buttonwood Park Zoo's Facebook, the zoo will be unexpectedly closed on Feb. 5. A ...

This month, we’re featuring Sid, the two-toed sloth. “Sloths are famous for being real slow, they are so slow because they have to conserve their energy,” said founder and executive director ...

Zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke, holding a baby sloth I started my investigation with a trip to London zoo to meet their slowest mammal resident – a two-toed sloth named Marilyn ...

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.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo is celebrating the births of two cubs to one of its sloth ... says sloth bears are neither related to sloths nor slow-moving. The sloth bear gets ...