We miss her dearly’ - Athena, the Linnaeus's two-toed sloth at the National Zoo, died overnight on November 13 after rapidly ...

WASHINGTON — The National Zoo is grieving the loss of a 7-year-old sloth named Athena, who died after a "sudden and irreversible" health decline. According to the National Zoo, Athena developed ...

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 ...

This video revisits a rare close-up look at one of the slowest animals on Earth. Detailed footage captures how a sloth ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

'Lightning' the sloth's favorite place to be is in this bucket. By hanging, sloths exert zero energy. "Lightning" the pregnant sloth is a bit of a contradiction. The Cincinnati Zoo mammal can be ...