With their hugging posture and ever-present smile, sloths embody Costa Rica’s pura vida lifestyle like no other creature. As ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tropical red sun is setting over Caño Palma as we head out for our evening paddle in Costa Rica’s Tortuguero National Park. Vines loop across the tea-brown river, like a still from a Tarzan movie.

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 ...