While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

This video reveals why sloths move so slowly that algae is able to grow directly on their fur. Viewers learn how this ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — There’s been a recent baby boom at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence. Pasty, a nine-banded armadillo, gave birth to a litter of four babies, who will turn eight-weeks-old ...

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is hoping to hit a new milestone this fall with the birth of its first sloth pup. The zoo announced Wednesday that Linne’s two-toed sloths Lightning, 8, and Moe, ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

Little Rock Zoo officials shared Friday that their sloth bear mother, Kayla, gave birth to two cubs over the weekend.