Sloths mate and give birth while hanging in the trees. Three-toed sloth babies are often seen clinging to their mothers—they travel by hanging on to them for the first nine months of their lives.

1. Two-toed and three-toed sloths aren’t all that similar. The cute little babe pictured above is a two-toed sloth, of which there are two species belonging to the Megalonychidae family. The four ...

It is sometimes called "sloth fever" because scientists investigating the virus first found it in a three-toed sloth and the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials ...

I went to the Alps in August because my son — a New York City third grader obsessed with baseball, projectiles and YouTube — ...

Rolo is also the first male sloth born in Zoo Atlanta in its 135-year history. His sister, Olivia, who is more than a year old, is moving to another habitat accredited by the Association of Zoos and ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals ... There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths. All sloths are built for life in the treetops. They spend nearly all of ...

The species is notably smaller than other species of sloths. An adult pygmy three-toed sloth weighs between 5.5 and 7.7 pounds and measures 19 to 21 inches in length. Their external ear canals are ...