Two sloths have arrived at Jersey Zoo in the hope they will breed. Terry and Rio are the first sloths at the zoo said keepers. Their enclosure allows them to stay aloft as they would do in the wild.

A young brown-throated three-toed sloth hanging from a branch (picture: Getty) Sloths may be the world’s slowest animal but they are also one of the most curious. Sloth selfie wins the internet (and ...

Sally, a seven-year-old Linne's Two-Toed sloth, is easing into her new home after a near 250-mile journey up the A1 from her ...

Friends with benefits Imagine a creature so slothful that it snacks off its own fur and budges only once a week for a bowel movement. Well, there is one, say a team of scientists, and it is a type of ...

Two animals at the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica (Picture: Discovery Communications) Today is the beginning of Sloth Week. It means six days of online videos of cute sloths from the Sloth Sanctuary of ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

A Cambridgeshire zoo has welcomed a new addition to the animal family. Vee and Mr Snuffles, both sloths at Hamerton Zoo near ...

The three-toed sloth is the slowest mammal in the world The sloth's popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question. Rather than snoozing for more than ...