While filming Eat, Pray, Love in India, actor Julia Roberts visited the sanctuary and chose the name Odum for the bear, ...

Celebrate International Sloth Day with five Odd News stories of the slow-moving species breaking records and getting up to mischief.

A sloth bear named by Hollywood star Julia Roberts is flourishing 17 years after being rescued from a life of abuse in India.

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

Conservationists were doing field work in Costa Rica when they heard a “faint cry” coming from the trees. Then they found a three-fingered newborn sloth crying after it had been separated from its ...

Costa Rica's Jaguar Rescue Center made sure to get a baby sloth back to its mother using a tested technique the wildlife center created Rescuers reunited a baby sloth with its mother after the little ...

Crossing the road can be dangerous for the sloths. Fortunately, there are people to help. Christy Fromel, a member of the loosely organized "Citizen Sloth Patrol", searches for sloths on a road not ...

The mother 3-toed sloth climbed down from the tree she was in after hearing her baby's call Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

CENTRAL FLORIDA — The Central Florida Zoo shared heartfelt news on Facebook that Habanero, the sloth, sadly passed away Sunday morning after his condition worsened rapidly. According to the post, he ...

Sloths carry entire ecosystems in their fur, descend from the canopy to perform rituals that sustain hidden life cycles, and ...