Modern sloths appear poorly equipped for survival: they are extremely slow, have little offensive power and depend heavily on ...

A new review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity documents how vertebrates from sloths to chimpanzees rely on insects for food, ...

Florida’s wildlife agency has proposed new rules to strengthen protections for sloths imported into the state, four months after an Inside Climate News investigation revealed dozens of wild sloths ...

Benjamin Agresta, the former president of Sloth World in Orlando, has sent a letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) urging stricter rules for keeping sloths in captivity ...

High in the jungle canopy, a three-toed sloth is surprisingly tricky to spot. Sleepy, sedentary and supremely camouflaged, it often takes an experienced guide to pick out the curve of a hooked claw or ...

Sloth bears play a critical role in structuring India’s dry deciduous forests by dispersing viable seeds and influencing plant regeneration, reports contributor Sneha Mahale for Mongabay India. “Dry ...

Researchers found human-modified giant sloth bones dating to 25,000–27,000 years ago in Brazil, potentially pushing back South America’s earliest human presence by 12,000 years. Scientists used ...

An exotic animal exhibitor whose sloth-encounters business was shuttered by New York courts is attempting to relaunch his operations in Florida, right as the state grapples with the fallout from sloth ...

Another death has hit the group of 13 sloths brought to the Central Florida Zoo after the closure of the planned International Drive attraction, zoo officials announced Tuesday. “It’s with a heavy ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet, but living in dense jungles has made them notoriously difficult to study. For the first time, scientists have now sequenced and analyzed the two-toed ...

The Sloth World story has been one of the hardest ones to follow in the Central Florida animal welfare space over the past several months, and anyone who has been reading the updates from the Central ...