Most people are familiar with modern sloths — slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammals that digest food slowly and descend only occasionally. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, a ...

The video showed a sloth playing with water. The sloth is accompanied by humans. The sloth can be seen sitting on the edge of the boat, it leans forward to dip its hand in the water stream.

Sloths lived on the ground, in caves and tunnels underground and even in water, some growing as big as elephants and standing taller than a man. But around 15,000 years ago, sloths started to die out.

Brand new to science: a sloth drinking water—captured cinematically for the first time. Until recently, it was assumed that sloths didn't need to drink water, and that they got water from the ...

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

The moderately sized Shasta ground sloth favored small, natural caves bored by wind and water into the cliffsides of the Grand Canyon, like the alveoli of a gigantic, geologic lung. These also ...

Until recently, it was assumed that sloths didn’t need to drink water, and that they got water from the food they ate. Now we know that isn’t true, and you can see it for yourself in this ...