Woodland Park Zoo has said goodbye to a very important grandma. Tasha, a 20-year-old sloth bear known for her beautiful coat, hazel eyes, and love of cinnamon, was humanely euthanized after being ...

SEATTLE — A 20-year-old sloth bear at the Woodland Park Zoo has died, zoo officials announced on Friday. Tasha, a female sloth bear, was euthanized after veterinarians found she had cancer ...

SEATTLE — A 3-month-old sloth bear cub named Bowie will make her public debut this weekend at Woodland Park Zoo. Named for David Bowie, with whom she shares a birthday, January 8, will venture ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has opened a new exhibit with two animals that move a mile a minute. The zoo is welcoming Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed ...

This month, we’re featuring Sid, the two-toed sloth. “Sloths are famous for being real slow, they are so slow because they have to conserve their energy,” said founder and executive director ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.

Instead, he was betrayed by a two-toed sloth named Sid. The Saginaw Township store, which opened in 2022, has sold everything from armadillos to alligators, from hairless rats to bearded dragons ...

Prehistoric sloths were massive creatures with large claws, suggesting early humans in the Americas might have coexisted with them for millennia. New findings from Brazil's Santa Elina site imply ...

A potentially deadly virus commonly known as "sloth fever" is sparking new pleas for caution across the United States after Florida reported nine new cases in a week related to international ...