From the cute but toxic Slow Loris to the turtle names Mata Mata that looks insane these creatures actually move the slowest ever!

5. Mata Mata
This turtle isn't sick we swear. It's supposed to look like that. Although all turtles are pretty slow, the Mata Mata excels in not only being slow but also being lazy. The only thing that these animals move for is to eat, and even then, they only suck up their prey. Because the Mata Mata looks like leaves at the bottom of a river, that is where they stay and when a fish wanders across, it sucks them up. It’s the Kirbie of the river bed if Kirbie was horrific looking and never moved. You can buy Mata Mata's if you are into exotic pets, but you should expect want is essentially a living paper weight. It can be fast, it just doesn’t want to, which is the excuse every lazy person ever gives to people.

4. Three-toed Sloth
If you don't love sloth's, then you have problems. They have become synonymous with low-speed. They are weirdly adorable, and they bring Kirsten Bell to tears, which is something that gives it, even more, cuteness for some unknown reason. Some people even believe that sloths were named that way because of their extreme slowness. The sloth is so slow that they even have special algae that grow on them. Think about that. A type of algae saw this animal and said, "That's a stationary object, right? Let's grow there." Did you know that sloths are so slow that copulation between sloths takes around 25 minutes, but that might just be because they are better at it than we think. The fastest that sloths can move is around 3 centimeters per second, and two-toed sloths do run faster than the three-toed.

3. Starfish
This one is another marine animal who skipped the evolutionary lesson on what shapes make you swim fast. Sure, it's not technically even a fish, it belongs to the phylum Echinodermata which means that it has more in common with sea urchins and coral than it does with fish. There are about 2000 species of this marine invertebrate that come in varying different speeds, but their average speed is around 0.89-2.7 centimeters per second. The starfish doesn't even really swim, it mainly just floats along in the ocean and lets the current take it which makes this another animal on this list that isn't exactly proactive. The slowest starfish is around 0.25 centimeters per second, and the fastest comes in at around 4.7 centimeters per second. So, it's not all bad.

2. Land Snail
This entry should come as no surprise to anyone. Although some people have never even seen snails thanks to whatever climate they live in, if you don't know, though, they are very, very slow. It turns out that essentially being a lump of gelatinous goo doesn't do much regarding speed. The only way that they are even able to move is a powerful muscle towards the back of their body that allows them to crawl over rough surfaces. The muscle also helps them keep their bodies wet so that they won't dry out. Its muscles can only work so well, though, which makes this animal's top speed 1.3 centimeters per a second. We still love you snails.

Seahorse
Everyone knows what a seahorse is, or the should. It's obvious how this little fish got its name; the head looks like it belongs to a horse. The anatomy of the fish also feathers a thick armor and an upright posture. Mostly because of its upright position, the seahorse isn't the fastest fish in the sea. It's not the most aerodynamically adapted shape. The seahorse is an unusual animal, one of the most well-known weird facts that exists about this marine animal is that the male's of the species are the one's that give birth. The average speed of these quirky animals is that about 0.04 centimeters per a second.

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