In the dense mangroves of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the coast of Panama, resides one of the world’s most ...

The Critically Endangered pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) hanging out in the mangroves of Escudo Island. Photo courtesy of Bryson Voirin.

The Critically Endangered pygmy three-toed sloth is endemic to a small island off the coast of Panama. Photo courtesy of Bryson Voirin. The world’s smallest sloth is threatened by human ...

Although many mistake them for monkeys or even bears, sloths are not primates, much less carnivores. These slow-moving, ...

Pygmy Three-Toed Sloths Classified as critically endangered and believed to have a rapidly declining population and habitat area, pygmy three-toed sloths (Bradypus pygmaeus) are native exclusively to ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed listing the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act in response to a 2013 emergency petition filed by the Animal Welfare Institute ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the pygmy three-toed sloth under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal responds to a 2013 petition filed after officials ...

A rare pygmy three-toed sloth stirred an international controversy after officials of the Dallas World Aquarium caught and crated six of the creatures on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, an island off Panama.

Found only on a tiny island in the southern Caribbean, the threatened population of the pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) does not have much room to grow. Fortunately, the world’s smallest ...

Brown throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) Pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) At present, 4 sloth species are listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. The maned ...

Pygmy three-toed sloth The pygmy three-toed sloth, also referred to as the dwarf sloth, is endemic to Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off the Caribbean coast of Panama.