The Sloth Blog
Be More Sloth, says eveSleep
The sleep brand's Be More Sloth video, which aims to help reduce stress and insomnia, lasts 20 hours, and shows footage of a sloth as it sleeps throughout the day in the Costa Rican rainforest. The length of the video is inspired by the slow movements of sloths, which spend up to 20 hours asleep and move...
Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, turn survival of the fittest upside down
The stopwatch has long been the symbol of 60 Minutes. But any measure of time is pointless for the subject of our next story: the slow-moving sloth. You might think these distant relatives of the armadillo would make the perfect meal for just about anything faster. And yet, somehow, sloths...
Ancient sloth found to have been bitten by ancient crocodile
A pair of researchers, one with Instituto Argentino de NivologÃa, the other Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, has found fossil evidence of an ancient giant ground sloth living in proto-Amazonian swamps. The fossil has shinbone bite marks from a Miocene caiman Purussaurus, a large crocodilian species from the period. In their...