Long before modern sloths became slow-moving tree dwellers, their ancestors were enormous ground beasts. These ancient sloths ...

Tourists snapping selfies with sloths are fueling a booming black market that’s tearing these gentle animals from the Amazon ...

Officials told PTI, ‘After scanning the images captured on trap cameras, we have arrived at the conclusion that there are at ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

The northern and southern maned sloths may look very similar from the outside, but their genomes reveal different stories: The two species have faced very distinct conditions in Brazil's Atlantic ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, came into force 50 years ago and remains one of the most ...

An NGO installed the trap cameras in a pocket of the Kotshila forest in collaboration with the Bengal forest department.

Officials at the Shedd Aquarium say the Linné’s two-toed sloth named Alface -- pronounced al-FAH-see -- arrived in September.

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

Images from trap cameras in West Bengal's Purulia district reveal at least four sloth bears, signaling a positive step for conservation. Previously, only one bear was documented in the area in 2022.

We often mindlessly trample on snails and earthworms because they move so slowly compared to the average human, but there’s a ...