New research on the evolutionary relationships between tree sloths and their extinct giant relatives is challenging decades of widely accepted scientific research. A team of international researchers ...

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. "Important interspecific interactions — between sloths, ...

Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day. The study, by an international ...

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 ...

Dr. Rebecca Cliffe is a Sloth Conservation Biologist and Founder and Director of the Sloth Conservation Foundation. I've been following her on Instagram for a while because she always shares ...

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to ...

Sloths are notoriously slow. Living in rainforests in Central and South America, sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the trees, rarely coming down to the ground. There are two main ...

Many sloths captured by illegal loggers are sold at markets into the exotic pet or tourist entertainment trade, where they are forced to pose for selfies with tourists A terrified sloth has been ...

A terrified sloth has been filmed clinging to a tree as illegal loggers chop down its home, before they capture and sell it. Miraculously the sloth survived after the 100ft tree slammed to the ground ...