The Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, home to towering trees, tigers and lemurs, unveiled a new specially designed habitat for two sloths and three endangered squirrel-sized monkeys called golden ...

Christmas has come early at the Woodland Park Zoo where an endangered sloth bear was born earlier this week. The cub, born Tuesday morning in an off-view maternity den, represents the first offspring ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo's 3-month-old sloth bear cub, Bowie, is set to make her public debut this weekend. Born on January 8, the same day as music icon David Bowie, the young cub will be ...

What starts as a simple feeding video quickly turns into a full tour through one of the strangest and most fascinating exotic ...

The Northern and Southern Maned Sloths may look very similar from the outside, but their genomes reveal different stories: the two species have faced very distinct conditions in Brazil’s Atlantic ...

The Philadelphia Zoo has been a leader in animal conservation in the United States. As we get closer to the 5oth anniversary of Earth Day, we celebrate the Zoo's work protecting and preserving ...

Sloths are slow-moving, arboreal mammals living in Central and South America. The two types of sloths are the two-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth. Three-toed sloths are strictly herbivorous, while ...

Multiple animals were on the agenda at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, a meeting that occurred in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The purpose of this meeting was for governments to ...

Officials seized 25 animals, including a sloth and a critically endangered amphibian called an axolotl, and found new homes for them. By Melena Ryzik The Woodbridge, N.J., location of SeaQuest, an ...

Sloths are the ideal representation of calm: slow-moving, sleepy, and perfectly at ease in the treetops. But life in the wild is never as peaceful as it seems and sloths are part of the ongoing food ...