WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society is calling on the community to help choose a name for its newest addition: a baby sloth born to first-time mom, Wilbur. Born ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For ...

Sloths are an endangered species and without human assistance, they will become extinct. Sloths' environments are being destroyed, and as a result, they are losing their habitats and homes. If those ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — — An adorable, furry baby Hoffman's two-toed sloth has made its debut at zoo in Florida. Zookeepers at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society have been monitoring the ...

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 ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka’s largest and a prime location for year-round sloth bear sightings, has sparked concern after the sudden deaths of three sloth bears (Melursus ursinus inornatus) ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of ...