The San Diego Zoo celebrated International Sloth Day with an appropriately-timed announcement: the birth of a baby Linnaeus's two-toed sloth.

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

Some zoo babies become overnight sensations because they're rare. Others steal hearts simply by being impossibly adorable. For the past two months, one tiny Hoffmann's two-toed sloth has been doing a ...

The workers at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in St. Paul have named their two-month-old baby sloth "Cusi." Pronounced KOO-see, it's a Quechua word meaning "joy," and it followed a vote among zoo staff ...

(WJAR) — The Rover Williams Park Zoo has revealed the name of its baby sloth, and it’s a nod a famous movie character. The nation’s first blockbuster was filmed in Massachusetts. The zoo also released ...

Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, just got a whole lot cuter. Zookeepers are celebrating their newest star, a one-month-old sloth born to their beloved resident, Beanie. The adorable new ...

Chloe is a Sloth living her best life. In a now-viral social media post, Chloe is debunking the species’ reputation for being solitary animals that don’t thrive on affection. As Chloe celebrates her ...

There is a new Beanie Baby in town and fans can see it in public for the first time on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The furry friend, currently known as “Beanie’s Baby,” was born on Aug. 26 at Elmwood Park Zoo ...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, is thrilled to introduce its newest star, Beanie's Baby. The one-month-old sloth was born to mom, Beanie. The animal will make ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. CITES, the global wildlife trade regulation, has agreed to implement stricter rules for the trade in two sloth species increasingly targeted by the ...