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 ...

Winner of the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition; a sloth clinging to a fence post. Credit: Emmanuel Tardy. A brown-throated three-toed sloth strikes a familiar pose, clinging onto a ...

Explore the slowest animals on Earth. Learn how these ultra-slow creatures live, move, and survive in nature's fast-paced ...

A short video showing a three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) female moving from tree to tree carrying her offspring on her belly. Video was shot at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's ...

While some animals, like cheetahs or peregrine falcons, are built for incredible speed, others live life at a completely ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — At Palm Beach Zoo, a Hoffman’s two-toed sloth is teaching golden lion tamarins the art of taking it easy. The tree-dwelling species now share a newly opened habitat, ...

Bean, the 6-year-old Hoffman’s two-toed sloth at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, died recently after a short illness. Bean, born in May 2019, died Wednesday after being diagnosed one week earlier with ...