Sloths can take as long as one minute to move just 12 inches. It seems like a chill existence, until you consider what a glacial pace means for their pooping habits.

The image starkly depicts the challenges sloths face as humans increasingly encroach on their habitat. All five species of ...

The animal kingdom is packed with surprising eating behaviors that challenge human understanding of what’s normal or acc ...

Sloths hang upside down all day because it is their natural posture, which allows them to access food and save energy.

A century ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological ...

In a time when modern big cats like the African lion and the tiger are facing sharp population declines due to habitat loss, ...

A new documentary delving into the cultural phenomenon of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, which debuted in the early 2000s and featured host Chris Hansen, will follow the “rise and staggering fall of the ...

Sloth fever is mostly spread by a small insect called the biting midge, which lives in rural areas all over the world. "Sometimes this midge bites you, and you don't realize," William de Souza, a ...

When the latter, portrayed by Samuel Blenkin, appears on screen, he’s almost always either reciting Peter Pan via intercom to ...

PITTSBURGH — The National Aviary celebrated the birthdays of two of its resident sloths, Vivien and Wookiee, on Thursday, drawing nearly 300 guests to the event. Vivien, a Linnaeus’s Two-toed Sloth, ...

A vast network of ancient tunnels carved deep beneath South America defies explanation—neither humans nor natural forces seem ...

The National Aviary celebrated the birthdays of two of its resident sloths, Vivien and Wookiee, on Thursday, drawing nearly 300 guests to the event. Vivien, a Linnaeus’s Two-toed Sloth, turned eight ...