In the name of science, I decided to give Sleep Sloth a try. All I need to do is type whatever I need to hear in the little box and my new friend will say it right back to me, like the therapist I ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – We all know someone who’s life consists of sleeping and eating. Add hanging out in trees all day, and you have the newest member of the Indianapolis Zoo! Quinto is the zoo ...

They spend nearly all of their time in the trees and have been known to cling on to branches even after death with their powerful claws. Sloths sleep in trees for up to 20 hours a day.

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True, sloths don’t actually do very much, other than hang from trees and sleep a lot, but they’re not being lazy — good Lord, no. They’re just being sloths.

Cliffe, who has worked with sloths for over a decade, has only seen one birth similar to this one, in 2013, during which the baby was also saved by its umbilical cord. “I don’t think it ...

The only species we know and love today, however, are the two-toed and three-toed sloths—but paleontologists have been arguing how to classify them, and their ancestors, for decades. A pair of studies ...