Athena suffered from early-onset chronic kidney disease, which made it hard for her to keep weight on, zoo officials said (Facebook/Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) The 7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM)– A Pennsylvania zoo’s newest star, a one-month-old sloth, will soon make its debut to the public. The Elmwood Park Zoo, ...

The Erie Zoo announced one of the newest members of their family, Coconut the Linne’s two-toed sloth, has passed away. The zoo said Coconut passed away Sunday evening, saying that while the ...

One of the UK's oldest living sloths has become a father once again - at the grand old age of 35. Mr. Snuffles and female sloth, Vee, welcomed their latest addition - a female baby sloth born at ...

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — The Capron Park Zoo has chosen the name of its baby sloth. The Attleboro zoo announced Tuesday morning that the nearly 9-month-old sloth’s name is now Sassafrass. The female ...

CINCINNATI - An Indiana-based family is hoping the Cincinnati Zoo will name a soon-to-be newborn sloth after their late son who died earlier this year in the nearby Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. and its visitors are mourning the loss of Athena, a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth known for her lively, mischievous personality, after her sudden death.

(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania zoo’s newest star, a one-month-old sloth, will soon make its debut to the public. The Elmwood Park Zoo, located in Norristown, Pennsylvania, today announced the birth of the ...