From the forest to the beach, here's where to spot these lovable, slow-moving creatures. Costa Rica is home to two types of sloths — the Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth and the brown-throated sloth. And ...

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LA FORTUNA, Costa Rica -- A child zooming down a zipline through a rainforest in Costa Rica collided with a slow-moving sloth clinging to the cable. It happened Sunday at the Go Adventure Arenal Park ...

For more than a decade, animal rescue centers in Central America have reported receiving a strangely high number of baby sloths with genetic mutations. Dr. Rebecca Cliffe was working on her Ph.D. near ...

The lack of public awareness regarding the specific needs of sloths and how to protect them, as well as uncontrolled and unplanned urban expansion that destroys their natural habitat, are some of the ...

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 ...

Sloths in Costa Rica have shown to have bacteria in their fur that produce antibiotics that keep pathogens that can make the animal sick at bay. Could this finding have an application in humans? That ...

Every October 20, the world slows down (at least in spirit) for International Sloth Day. It’s the perfect excuse to celebrate ...

Last year, the Costa Rica Tourism Board and its agency 22squared launched the "Save the Americans" campaign to convey the message that Americans in Canada and the U.S. are overworked and ...

The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists hope may hold a solution to the growing problem of "superbugs" resistant to humanity's dwindling arsenal ...