The CDC is sending out a warning about the Oropouche virus — also known as “sloth fever” — as several cases have been reported in Florida A potentially deadly virus known as “sloth fever” has made its ...

U.S. health officials are warning travelers about a potentially deadly insect-borne virus known as sloth fever that has infected 21 U.S. residents returning from Cuba and thousands more in South ...

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...

A slow poke named Lightning is giving Ohio zookeepers a new experience. Lightning, a Linne two-toed sloth, gave birth last week at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, the facility announced. It’s ...

Thousands, including the president and vice president, attend the memorial service for assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk. by KOMO News Staff TOPICS: SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo's ...

Cocoa, a 30-year-old sloth, is already a dad of one and a soon-to-be dad of two Zoo Atlanta/Instagram A male sloth got a highly appropriate Father's Day gift! Cocoa, a 30-year-old Hoffmann's two-toed ...

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth traveled across a barren, arid landscape in what is now Belize, munching on grassy vegetation and searching for water. A nearby sinkhole may have promised ...

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

A baby sloth has been reunited with its mother in Costa Rica after it got separated from her in a coastal forest. Staff at the Jaguar Rescue Center on the Central American country’s Playa Chiquita ...

Nearly five months after the Philadelphia Zoo welcomed two sloth bear cubs, the baby bears finally have made their public debut. But they each still need a name. The zoo is asking the public to choose ...