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(WHTM) –The third Saturday in October is the day to contemplate the sloths, those charming creatures who remind us that the fast lane is not always the best way to travel. Get daily news, weather, ...

Sloths are having a *moment* right now. Their adorable faces can be found on t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and in commercials. They're taking over kid toy aisles, are now a popular baby shower theme, and, ...

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 ...

This killer sloth creature feature isn't funny or scary enough to justify its thin premise. The tale begins in Panama, where a sloth massacres a crocodile before being bagged by poachers. Cut to ...

Illustration of a sloth in André Thevet's Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (Paris: heirs of Maurice de la Porte 1558) Courtesy of Christie's The slow-moving sloth is now something of an ...