A group of sloths is called a snuggle. Sloths have been around before dinosaurs -- over 65 million years. Giant sloths the size of elephants used to exist, but they are now extinct.

This group of skulls, from living and extinct sloth species, shows the great diversity in body sizes. At bottom center is the living brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus . At bottom right is ...

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that sells “educational experiences” to the public, is under investigation by The Humane Society of the United States for suspected mistreatment.

Megalonyx belongs to a family group of sloths that are believed to have “emerged in South America about 30 million years ago,” the museum said. From there, ...

Last spring a group of kids from the Tara Redwood School in Soquel were digging around in the forest and stumbled upon a large fossil that they knew was more than just a strange-looking log. Their ...

Sloth Encounters, a Hauppauge business that charges $50 per half-hour to hold, feed and pet sloths, was violating Suffolk sanitary code, ... president of the advocacy group Humane Long Island.

Megalonyx belongs to a family group of sloths that are believed to have “emerged in South America about 30 million years ago,” the museum said. From there, ...