The Tulsa Zoo is home to thousands of animals, but some of the most popular residents may be harder to spot during a visit.

Video by @cincinnatizooSound on! This sloth looks very relaxed eating his dinner! 🤩🦥💤 Sloths are slow-moving, nocturnal animals that spend almost their entire life upside down in the trees! They ...

Couch cushions, rugs and carpets are made of polyester fibers; furniture and flooring is coated in plastic laminates. The ...

Brazil nuts contain high levels of selenium that can cause toxicity and lead to symptoms such as digestive upset and fatigue ...

A sloth attacked a corncob with uncharacteristic speed and vigor at the Cincinnati Zoo, footage posted on December 7 ...

Costa Rica, alongside Brazil and Panama, has secured new international safeguards for two species of two-toed sloths, as nations at the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

Despite the title, Marion Nestle’s new book is not about what to eat. “It’s a book about how to think about what to eat,” she said recently from her home in New York City, where she was recovering ...

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 ...

Nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle says that when she wrote her first book, Food Politics, in 2002, people often asked her what food had to do with politics. "Nobody asks me that anymore," Nestle ...

The Erie Zoo announced the recently acquired Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, Coconut, died on Oct. 26. The sloth was found on Oct. 18 laying on the floor with no sign of appetite, low body temperature and ...

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...