When you picture the jungle, your mind might jump to roaring tigers, monkeys swinging wildly from tree to tree, or bright parrots flitting between branches. But high above, in the dense green canopy, ...

Sloth World's owners were legally permitted by the state to possess captive wildlife. But permit holders aren't required to report animal illness or death to the state. Lawmakers want to see that ...

Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths. Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths ...

Sloths are notoriously hard to see, so they can be hard to help. But one furry creature is at the heart of sloth conservation in Costa Rica. Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha —trained ...

The apparent docility and friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. The rise in trafficking of these animals led the governments of ...

Shark Week? In this year 2026, that’s kind of played out. Sloth Month? Now there’s something we can (very slowly) get behind. Paramylodon harlani was not like today’s cutesy tree sloths, drooping in ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

All the support we're getting, all the kind words and certainly the people that are donating, any of that, it just means so ...

Shark Week? In this year 2026, that’s kind of played out. Sloth Month? Now there’s something we can (very slowly) get behind. This winter, the Children’s Natural History Museum in Fremont acquired a ...