In response to an emergency petition filed by AWI in 2013 and more than a decade of advocacy, the US Fish and Wildlife Service at long last proposed listing the pygmy three-toed sloth under the ESA.

Tourists take turns snapping photos with a pygmy slow loris at a floating river ... boys on the Amazon River snapping selfies with baby sloths. Most tourists who enjoy these encounters don ...

On Dec. 9, just two weeks before Christmas, a baby pygmy hippo was born at the zoo in Richmond, Virginia. The baby girl is the third hippo calf born to Metro Richmond Zoo resident pygmy hippos ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo has launched the Poppy Cam, a new livestream of its baby pygmy hippo Poppy and her mother, Iris. Poppy was born on Dec. 9, 2024, at the zoo. The Poppy Cam lets hippo lovers ...

Metro Richmond Zoo launched "Poppy Cam" on Jan. 13 — allowing fans from around the world to watch the baby pygmy hippo splash around in her pool Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia announced the newest addition to their animal family, a baby pygmy hippo, just in time for the holidays. The newborn pygmy hippo was born on Dec. 9 after a 7 ...

We have two words for you: baby. sloths. Baby sloths! Is there anything cuter in the entire world than a baby sloth? The internet couldn't get over the baby sloths at the Sloth Conservation ...

A Virginia zoo got a hippopotamus for Christmas because only a hippopotamus would do. A female pygmy hippopotamus calf was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in early December, marking the third calf ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia has announced the addition of a baby pygmy hippopotamus, born on Dec. 9. Five days after birth, the yet-to-be-named baby pygmy weighed about 15 pounds ...

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...