Two sloths living at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens have a new home with the opening of Sloth Crossing, the zoo's new habitat for Ruth, a 7-year-old female Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, and Chata, a 29 ...

A new exhibit featuring live animals opens at Whitaker Center on Friday. “Survival of the Slowest: Counterintuitive Adaptations” will teach visitors how some of the world’s slowest-moving species have ...

The cubs’ mother, Molly, arrived at the zoo from Kansas last April and her pregnancy occurred after a breeding recommendation from the Species Survival Plan The Smithsonian's National Zoo is ...

The tiny cubs, currently off-exhibit, are expected to debut in Spring 2026. Mike Bock Nearly one month old, the two sloth bear cubs are shown resting in their den on Jan. 5, 2026. Zoo staff are ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) announced Jan. 6 that two sloth bear cubs were born in their care Dec. 7 and will debut in an exhibit this spring. The ...

Baby animals are our favorite. Puppies, kittens, chicks, bunnies — the list goes on and on! And if you go to the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, you can see a brand-new baby sloth ...