MOTH: Sloth? This is Moth. SLOTH: Hello, Moth. MOTH: Hello, Sloth. That was an awfully long pause there. Well. I suppose I shouldn’t marvel at your lack of speed. I mean, you do nothing and then about ...

Once a week, three-toed sloths slowly descend from the leafy forest canopy to poop on the ground. Why do these sluggish mammals go on such a long and potentially dangerous journey instead of just ...

For the three-toed sloth, a trip to the restroom is no rest at all. It’s a long, slow descent into mortal danger from the safety of home among the upper branches of the forest. For the three-toed ...

Imagine a creature so slothful that it snacks off its own fur and budges only once a week for a bowel movement. Well, there is one, say scientists, and it is a type of sloth. Having carefully studied ...

Humans generally don’t like it when things grow on them, whether it’s a bacterial infection, a cancerous tumor, or, for parents, the latest Cocomelon song. But it’s a different story for our mammalian ...

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it. “These sloths are the lowest ...