The Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, home to towering trees, tigers and lemurs, unveiled a new specially designed habitat for two sloths and three endangered squirrel-sized monkeys called golden ...

An international team of scientists has extracted the DNA of a mysterious extinct monkey, casting new light on its murky evolutionary history. Until relatively recently, the Caribbean contained a ...

In 2012, actress Kristen Bell gushed on The Ellen Show about her love of sloths after her husband (then boyfriend) Dax ...

Shy kinkajous are among the unfortunate mammals that end up victim to vehicles on the roads of Costa Rica. (Franklin Lopez Martinez/WUFT News) Costa Rica’s highways are packed with animal lovers ...

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — The San Marcos High School Marching Band is known its fast pace and upbeat songs, but this year the band is dedicating its season to help the slowest mammal on Earth. In this ...

There are a handful of destinations around the world where the prospect of animal interaction is central to a visit. Costa Rica is one of them. Each time I’ve visited Costa Rica I’ve taken home ...

Sloths navigate trees just like monkeys do, a new study finds. The only difference is, sloths use their slothfulness to their advantage. Using X-ray video, researchers from the University of Jena ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — One of John Ball Zoo's longest residents has passed away. Linus, the zoo's Linne’s two-toed sloth was put down after a mass was found in his nose in 2020. Born in 1982 at ...