Fiona, a Linne's two-toed sloth, has given birth to her fifth baby, a boy, Rogers Williams Park Zoo announced in a Facebook ...

Scientists mapped the two-toed sloth genome and found a record number of extra gene copies. These unique energy-linked genes may explain how sloths survive on so little daily energy.

Why is JoJo so comfortable cuddling with a human? The answer begins on her first day, when her mother rejected her and ...

Celebrate International Sloth Day with five Odd News stories of the slow-moving species breaking records and getting up to mischief.

Get to know the world's slowest mammal. Learn what it does all day in the treetops of Central and South America.

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Meet Helen the sloth, the adorable animal who helped make fifth grader Sadie Kraft's dream come true at a North Dakota zoo.

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Walt Disney's newest animated film, Zootopia, is really good. As of this writing, the film holds a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes after 30 reviews. So yeah, it's pretty much perfect. But what ...