In fact, sloths are one of the most extreme animals on the planet, and not just because they poop only once a week. First of all, sloths really are extremely slow. Their top speeds clock in at ...

They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the seeds far and wide. All tree sloths that we see today evolved from giant ground sloths — there were thought to be over 80 different types with ...

There are both two-toed and three-toed sloths. All sloths are built for life in the treetops. They spend nearly all of their time aloft, hanging from branches with a powerful grip aided by their ...

Sloths are so slow that moss and fungi can grow on their fur! They move at an average speed of 0.17 miles per hour. This leisurely pace conserves energy as their diet is low in calories. Sloths have ...

Sloths like these once lived from Alaska to Argentina ... “It was a nice story for a while, when all the timing lined up,” said paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner at the Smithsonian ...

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 ...

To mark the BBC Radio 4 documentary The Power of Sloth, zoologist and author of Life in the Sloth Lane, Lucy Cooke, unleashes her inner sloth to discover why being lazy could actually be the ...

While neutron stars typically rotate in milliseconds or seconds, ASKAP J1839-075 takes an astonishing 6.45 hours to complete ...

In lockstep with all the other guides, Valverde slings his tripod on his shoulder and sets up his lens at different points ...