Lightning the two-toed sloth is expecting her first child this fall and is practicing for motherhood with a small plush sloth Lightning the two-toed sloth has a new friend! The Cincinnati Zoo resident ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

It’s not easy to find a sloth in the middle of the forest. They spend most of their time in the tree canopy and are masters ...

The National Zoo's Small Mammal House has a new resident: Athena the two-toed sloth. The 1.5-year-old shares her home with the zoo's golden lion tamarins, an aracari and Vlad, a 34-year-old male ...

A sloth scientist, her tree-climbing BFF, and their dog work to save Costa Rica’s sloth populations in groundbreaking ways, all while capturing rarely seen wild sloth behaviors and reimagining what it ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — No more sloths at SeaQuest. Clark County Animal Control is taking swift action after two of the slow-moving mammals died at the local attraction within a nine-month period. Newly ...

The baby sloth is Bonnie's second child with male Cocoa There’s a new resident hanging out at Zoo Atlanta. Bonnie, an 8-year-old Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth, recently gave birth to a healthy baby. The ...

Today is International Sloth Day—a day to celebrate these enigmatic creatures, raise awareness for the species and perhaps take a leaf out of their book, enjoy some downtime and take things slow. The ...

Nine-year-old Emmy Egan has spent more than two years battling leukemia. On a recent day at Zoo Miami, she got to forget ...