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

As of now, it is legal to import wild sloths into the United States and Florida, where research shows a majority of those ...

The proposal follows an Inside Climate News investigation revealing that dozens of imported wild sloths died at a planned Florida tourist attraction.

U.S. Reps. Maxwell Frost and Laurel Lee announced they are introducing the Stopping Legalized Organized Trafficking and Harm ...

International Sloth Day celebrates the fascinating biology, ancient ancestors, hidden ecosystems, and remarkable adaptations ...

ORLANDO — Sloth World, a planned Orlando attraction, is under scrutiny for the living conditions of its animals and the deaths of dozens of imported sloths. The attraction was announced in December as ...

Sloths carry entire ecosystems in their fur, descend from the canopy to perform rituals that sustain hidden life cycles, and ...

Found nowhere else in the wild, the pygmy three-toed sloth lives on a small island off Panama’s Caribbean coast. As ...

A Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth hangs from tree branches at the Scovill Zoo in Decatur, Ill. in this June 2012 photo.AP The investigation details emaciated, dehydrated animals and concerns about Sloth ...

Sloths are the ideal representation of calm: slow-moving, sleepy, and perfectly at ease in the treetops. But life in the wild is never as peaceful as it seems and sloths are part of the ongoing food ...