Sloth selfie bans are spreading because cute photos hide stress, disease risk, and illegal wildlife trade most tourists never see.

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground, ...

Orlando isn’t exactly known for taking things slow. This is a city built on early alarms, lightning-lane strategies and theme parks where “relaxing” usually still involves a lot of walking. Which is ...

In 2012, actress Kristen Bell gushed on The Ellen Show about her love of sloths after her husband (then boyfriend) Dax Shepard arranged an encounter for her to meet them — and people fully embraced ...