And yet, somehow, sloths have been hanging on in one form or another for 64 million years. To understand this quirky animal, 60 Minutes hung out with a quirky zoologist. Lucy Cooke has been ...

The long limbs and curved claws allow them to spend much of their time hanging tightly onto tree branches, upside down. Sloths sleep, eat, mate and even give birth upside down, according to the ...

Not slow cute after all. A teenage girl from Michigan had long dreamed of petting an adorable sloth — only for the sleepy-looking critter to violently chomp down on her arm at a pet store event ...

While sloths may be cute, especially when randomly hanging on to the wheel of a car, the Sloth Conservation Foundation notes that wild sloths "do not crave or seek out human contact" and can ...

That's going to be really beneficial for our sloth census. Sloths spend up to 90% of their lives hanging completely upside down in the rainforest canopy. They feed up there, they give birth up ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – There’s a new animal hanging around the Oregon Zoo. Berry the two-toed sloth joined the zoo’s rainforest habitat last week. Habitat overseer Marcus Jason said she may ...

But as the planet cooled again, sloths began to bulk up. The largest ground sloths emerged during the Ice Ages. Big bodies ...