Going to the bathroom can sometimes be painful for humans, but scientists agree that it is always a painful experience for a sloth. Sloths have one of the most unique rituals when it comes to ...

Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha. Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha —trained to sniff out sloth poop and empower the world’s first ever sloth census!

Valentino, a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, is fed by trainer Christa Gaus during the media day at the National Aviary on Friday, June 17, 2016, in Pittsburgh. The young sloth weighed just over a pound at ...

Valentino is a baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth. At five months old, he weighs about as much as a cantaloupe (and only moves slightly more). Everything he does, little that may be, is beyond adorable.

Voirin, Bryson, Kays, Roland, Wikelski, Martin, and Lowman, Margaret D. 2013. "Why Do Sloths Poop on the Ground?" In Treetops at Risk. Lowman, Margaret D., Devy ...

The humble sloth – an animal that is renowned for its slowness. In fact, it’s considered one of the slowest mammals on the entire planet. But while this might be the sloth’s signature distinguishing ...

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 ...

Sloths may be cute, but they’re covered in a surprising number of creepy crawlies. Sloths may be cute, but they’re covered in a surprising number of creepy crawlies. Aired 01/28/2014 National ...