Known for their peaceful appearance and the impression that they’re always smiling, sloths now have extra protection to ...

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge has ordered the Hauppauge-based Sloth Encounters to halt pet sales after finding owner Larry Wallach guilty of violating court orders from March. In a decision ...

Two species of sloths — Linnaeus' and Hoffman's — have been granted new international protections at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in ...

A sloth bite injured a child in South Carolina, a lawsuit said. This file photo was taken in New Jersey. SABINA LOUISE PIERCE ASSOCIATED PRESS A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth ...

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that charges $50 per half-hour to hold, feed and pet sloths, lacks a permit and was operating in violation of the Suffolk sanitary code, a county official said.

The owner of the pet store claims the teen didn't follow instructions and got too close to the sloth, who he says mistook her arm for an apple. Sloths move about six feet per minute but even these ...

As the Sloth Conservation Foundation writes, Oct. 20 is "more than an excuse to take it easy, it is a day to recognize an important member of tropical ecosystems" Oh hi there! We're just hanging out ...

A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth suddenly bit a child’s finger, “reaching the bone,” a South Carolina mother said. Candise Gore and her child are suing Charleston Sloth and Exotics ...

A sloth bite injured a child in South Carolina, a lawsuit said. This file photo was taken in New Jersey. SABINA LOUISE PIERCE ASSOCIATED PRESS A family was visiting an animal center when a sloth ...