A new documentary explores how slowness can be a superpower, helping animals camouflage, evade predators, maintain a low ...

Some of the slowest animals, such as sloths and tortoises, have managed to use their seemingly disadvantageous traits to survive and even thrive. At "Survival of the Slowest," the Arizona Science ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

In fiction, comparing animal speeds dates to ancient folklore like the famous Aesop fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare.” The story involves a hare challenging a tortoise for a race as it mocks the ...

See a sloth, touch a tarantula, eye an iguana and come face-to-face with a ball python at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit. “Fernbank’s newest exhibition is ‘Survival of the Slowest ...

Fast animals get plenty of attention for their incredible feats of speed. But what about animals that move at a slower pace? "We definitely are programmed to think that speed is good," said James ...

Sloths were not always slow, fragile animals hanging quietly in trees. Millions of years ago, some species reached massive ...

We often mindlessly trample on snails and earthworms because they move so slowly compared to the average human, but there’s a whole world of animals out there that are even slower. These are animals ...

While Latin America is home to the trafficking of all manner of species, several foundations are working to save arguably its slowest-moving victims: the sloths. The trafficking of these placid ...