Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and into the forest. Sloths are typically docile and are rarely a danger to people ...

For a listing and recovery biologist, it was just a regular day. United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Luke Pearson was recently doing field research in Northeast Mississippi on a species of ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

Video by @cincinnatizooMoe is on the move! 🦥 Sloths move slowly and deliberately through trees, using their long, curved claws to hang and move between branches, spending most of their lives in the ...

Trick or treat, Jeremy Renner! On Tuesday, Renner, 52, shared an amusing video of himself dressed as a sloth for Halloween to his Instagram Story. "D-D-D-DJ Sloth!" Renner announced in the brief clip, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Here’s your excuse to sloooooowwww dowwwnnnn this Friday: It’s International Sloth Day. To celebrate the holiday, we compiled 9 things to know about the sluggish tree-dwellers, ...