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This Animal Loses 30% of Its Body Weight in a Single Bathroom Trip

The brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a species of three-toed sloth found in the Neotropical realm of Central and South America© Milan Zygmunt/Shutterstock.com It’s not considered polite ...
Science Daily

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...
The Conversation

Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the prehistoric ecosystem

Larisa R. G. DeSantis received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. DeSantis is also a research associate at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...
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Our thirst for pineapple may be causing mutations in Costa Rica’s sloths

For more than a decade, animal rescue centers in Central America have reported receiving a strangely high number of baby sloths with genetic mutations. Dr. Rebecca Cliffe was working on her Ph.D. near ...