Why three-toed sloths risk their lives to help moths Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor.

Sid, the central sloth in the “Ice Age” franchise, is slow of wit but swift in body, while “Zootopia” installed its sloth, Flash, as an unhurried employee of the Department of Mammal Vehicles.

While sloths aren’t an endangered species, they are a hit at the North Florida Wildlife Center. According to Reines, they will be looking for a girlfriend for Sid in the near future.

During its brief tenure, a small exotic pet store in Saginaw Township whose sloth bit a customer has run into trouble with customers, competitors and federal regulators.

The sloth chomped down on Amarianna Ramon’s upper arm as she fed it apples. Courtesy of Christina Perez But the teen quickly learned the dark side of hanging with a sloth when she entered his ...

A Lowcountry family is suing a private, Charleston-area animal exhibit after an animal there allegedly bit their child’s finger to the bone.

The tiny Hoffman’s two-toed sloth was born Jan. 13 to mom CC and dad Sid at the Zoo. Pancakes, who currently weighs a whopping 1 pound, is the third baby born to CC and Sid.

To celebrate reaching 16,000 Twitch Subscribers, we partied hard the only way we know how: by playing D&D. But this time, we brought a sloth. Last Friday, Sid the Sloth visited the Geek & Sundry ...

No one has found an extinct sloth which moved upside-down through the canopy like modern species do. Laelaps paleontology blogger Brian Switek explains why.

Sid also serves as a reminder that sloths first appeared tens of millions of years ago, long before anyone thought to name them for a sin. Back then, they acted -- and looked -- distinctly, well ...