The Lincoln Park Zoo announced Wednesday that it was offering a "slow and sleepy welcome" to its newest animal resident.

Sloths spend much of their lives 40 to 60 feet above the ground, barely moving and disappearing so effectively into the ...

On a tiny island off Panama lives the pygmy three-toed sloth, an animal with a particularly strange diet. Some of the mangrove leaves it consumes contain alkaloids with narcotic properties that have ...

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. Shamus has details on: Uncle Remus Founder Celebrates 100th ...

A married couple devotes themselves to helping these animals, which are threatened by road accidents and electrocutions.

Zoey and Monkey slipped away when their owner fell during a walk and deputies spent nearly an hour tracking them down and ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its Tropical Rain Forest: Jessie, a 26-year-old female Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth who will join the zoo’s male sloth, Fezzik. Jessie was born ...

Irma Schutt worked for Boeing after World War II. She started in 1953 and spent 37 years there. She started as a riveter and eventually became a supervisor over hundreds of people. The Kansas high ...

A 26-year-old female Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth named Jessie has arrived at Woodland Park Zoo as part of a national breeding program. She joined Fezzik, an 11-year-old male sloth who arrived at the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (CBS12) — More than 50 sloths died after being brought to Florida for a never-opened attraction. Now, a sheriff's investigation says no criminal neglect occurred. The sheriff's office ...

Staff at the animal attraction do not believe the death of the red panda, named Ruby, is connected to those of her babies ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working to finalize an executive order to temporarily prohibit the importation of sloths into the state of Florida for 60 ...