When you picture the jungle, your mind might jump to roaring tigers, monkeys swinging wildly from tree to tree, or bright ...

Sloths are notoriously slow. Living in rainforests in Central and South America, sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the trees, rarely coming down to the ground. There are two main ...

Sloths are known for their slow and sleepy nature. These cute mammals, which spend most of their time upside down, can be found in the trees of South America and Central America. These mellow-looking ...

Slow down, you move too fast! Brooklynites who need to make the morning last can take a lesson from a new exhibit coming to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on Oct. 26. “Survival of the Slowest,” will ...

When it comes to physical activity, few animals have as maligned a reputation as the sloth. The six sloth species, which call Brazil and Panama home, move with no urgency, having seemingly adapted to ...

Three-toed sloths have a reputation for being some of the sleepiest of all animals, largely due to a single study, which found that captive sloths snooze for 16 hours a day. That certainly seems like ...

Even a slightly sleepy sloth finds time to enjoy a slow, charming snack.

But when it comes to their biology, the Central and South American critters are anything but boring. "Thirty percent of their body weight is just digesting, fermenting leaves," says Cliffe. "So ...