New research on the evolutionary relationships between tree sloths and their extinct giant relatives is challenging decades of widely accepted scientific research. A team of international researchers ...

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. "Important interspecific interactions — between sloths, ...

Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day. The study, by an international ...

Sloths appear to have life figured out, and once the details are revealed, being envious makes sense. These tree-dwelling ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to ...

It turns out the sloth, a notoriously slow moving animal, can actually move pretty fast. Particularly when a baby sloth’s life is dangling in the balance — quite literally. A tour group in Costa Rica ...

Sloths are fascinating creatures known for their slow movements and their almost entirely arboreal lifestyle. These sluggish mammals spend the majority of their lives hanging from the branches of ...