Who knew a ball of yarn could pack so much personality? These charming crochet animals prove you don’t need to spend big on a ...

The Rover Williams Park Zoo has revealed the name of its baby sloth, and it’s a nod a famous movie character. Newly named ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A newborn sloth is making this zoo all warm and fuzzy. An adorable tiny two-toed sloth named Beanie’s Baby made its public debut at Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, ...

Oct. 3 (UPI) --The Elmwood Park Zoo in Pennsylvania is introducing the public to its newest arrival: a baby two-toed sloth born at the facility. The Norristown zoo said the mother, named Beanie, was ...

Every now and again, you come across a video online that stops you in your tracks, not because it’s flashy or funny, but because it tugs at your heartstrings. That’s exactly what happens when you meet ...

The Erie Zoo welcomed a Linneaus’s two-toed sloth named Coconut from the St. Louis Aquarium. Zoo officials believe the Erie Zoo environment will be better suited for Coconut. Coconut arrived earlier ...

Denverites willing to brave the heat and visit the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance this summer may be able to sneak a peek at a new baby sloth snoozing and snuggling in the treetops of the Tropical ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor. A brown-throated three-toed sloth peers over a tree's buttress root while defecating on ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

A cooling, drying climate turned sloths into giants – before humans potentially drove the huge animals to extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through the ...