ATTLEBORO -- She will be known as Sasafrass. That's the name of the new baby sloth at Capron Park Zoo revealed in a ceremony ...

The zoo’s newest addition was born June 19 to Linne’s two-toed sloth couple Charlotte and Elliot, their fifth baby at the zoo ...

I n recent years, South America has seen the rise of a relatively old but unknown virus that could prove deadly in future ...

A tourism representative has highlighted a lack of awareness about the ease of travel to South America and the breadth of ...

The Harpy Eagle is one of the most fearsome and majestic birds to ever soar the skies. Known for its massive talons, capable of crushing bones and dragging prey twice its size from the trees, it has ...

Sometimes, a change of scenery is all it takes to reset. Central America offers peaceful spots where you can escape the ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

There is a widespread belief that avocados were once distributed by ground sloths and were only rescued from extinction ... proposed in 1982 to explain the many large fruits in South and Central ...

Sloths originated and primarily evolved in South America, but reached the Caribbean and Florida by the late Miocene. When the Isthmus of Panama rose above sea level about 3 million years ago, sloths ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go? The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop. By Laura Baisas ...

Two species survived in the Caribbean until around 4,500 years ago—until humans wiped them out. Now, sloths mostly keep to Central and South America, but thankfully aren’t on the menu anymore.