Every October 20, the world slows down (at least in spirit) for International Sloth Day. It’s the perfect excuse to celebrate ...

Sloths show that slow living sustains nature. Protecting them means preserving the balance of forests. Their story teaches patience and care.

In mammals, hair parts grow along the spine and flow down the back to the belly. Because sloths spend most of their life upside-down in the trees, its fur grows the other way—belly to back—allowing it ...

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 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Despite being so sedentary that algae grow on their fur, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s new sloth pup is anything but slow to steal hearts. The baby Linne’s Two-toed Sloth ...

The researchers found that three-toed sloths can harbor more phoretic moths than their two-toed counterparts because of greater concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and higher algal biomass in their ...

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it. “These sloths are the lowest ...

Experts say sloths appear to be infection resistant - Copyright AFP - The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists ...