"There have still been no legal consequences for the facility's owner, despite the suffering caused by his actions."

The world’s first “slotharium” was slapped with a stop-work order Thursday after a probe alarmingly found 31 sloths had died in the care of the Florida company prior to its grand opening last month. Sloth World Orlando received two shipments of two- and three-toed sloths — one in December 2024 from Guyana and one from Peru in February 2025 — in anticipation of its March 1 opening on the city’s famed International Drive.

Sloths are the ideal representation of calm: slow-moving, sleepy, and perfectly at ease in the treetops. But life in the wild is never as peaceful as it seems and sloths are part of the ongoing food

A genomic study led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research has revealed previously unknown lineages of two-toed sloths in Amazonia, overturning the belief that only two species exist. The research found some Hoffmann's two-toed sloth ...