The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that had digestive systems large enough to process the huge avocado seeds whole. They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

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 ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of ...

Truffles is a 22-month-old female Linnaeus two-toed sloth and she has moved into a purpose-built display at the safari park's Jungle Kingdom. The South America animals sleep for about 15 hours a ...