For years scientists assumed that sloths don't fart — believing the methane produced by their slow digestive system was simply absorbed into their bloodstreams and breathed out through their mouths.

A baby sloth named Honey, who lives at Beavers Bend Safari Park in Hochatown, Oklahoma, is stealing hearts left and right and breaking the internet, and once you see this adorable video, you’ll ...

San Diego Zoo Introduces New Baby Sloth in Adorable Video originally appeared on PetHelpful. What's cuter than a sloth? An adorable baby sloth! San Diego Zoo introduced the world to the zoo's newest ...

Long before today’s slow-moving tree dwellers, sloths were giants - literally. In this video, we explore the fascinating world of prehistoric ground sloths, some of which grew over 20 feet tall. From ...

There are some great animal mysteries on Planet Earth. Where do whale sharks give birth? How did the starfish become a star? How did this mystery circle form? One such mystery is related to one of the ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Everybody loves sloths, and whenever we talk ...

Mr. Snuffles is the second-oldest sloth in the UK, at the grand age of 35 years - the median life expectancy of Two-toed ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...