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 ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals in the world, can spend hours hanging motionless in a tree and eat very little food.

The Erie Zoo welcomed a Linneaus’s two-toed sloth named Coconut from the St. Louis Aquarium. Zoo officials believe the Erie Zoo environment will be better suited for Coconut. Coconut arrived earlier ...

Sloths always have a slight smile on their lips, making them appear friendly and cute. These incredibly slow tree dwellers naturally inhabit the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, ...