Wildlife photographer Lucy Cooke's new book "Life in the Sloth Lane" is packed with stunning shots of sloths Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

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.

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 ...

Store owner Deana Otis pets Sandy the sloth at EarthWise Pet Supply. Sandy lives in a special enclosure at the shop. (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer) Sandy sleeps 13 hours a day and poops twice a ...

Athena, a fan-favorite two-toed sloth at the National Zoo in DC, died after a sudden medical decline, officials announced.

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 ...

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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 ...