The famously unhurried animals spend the Super Bowl commercial trying it to make it through the Monday after the big game Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

He was hard to miss if you were driving to Bellingham. A giant stuffed sloth lived in a tree off Interstate 5 (I-5) near Lake Samish. He is called “Slothy.” The Washington Department of Transportation ...

A cooling, drying climate turned sloths into giants – before humans potentially drove the huge animals to extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through the ...

Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is welcoming the facility’s newest – if not the slowest – member of the animal community. The Linne’s two-toed sloth pup, whose gender is not yet known, was born ...