For the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Christmas came early in 2025. Zookeepers were ...

When you picture the jungle, your mind might jump to roaring tigers, monkeys swinging wildly from tree to tree, or bright ...

When you begin to think of the cutest animals in nature, a sloth may not immediately come to mind, but that’s probably because you’ve never seen a baby sloth. One look at the baby sloth in this ...

Sally, a seven-year-old Linne's Two-Toed sloth, is easing into her new home after a near 250-mile journey up the A1 from her old abode. The animal arrived at Northumberland Zoo near Morpeth two weeks ...

Sloths were not always the slow-moving creatures that we are familiar with today. For millions of years, these fascinating animals exhibited a wide range of sizes and forms, from small, nimble ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.