Three-toed sloths have a symbiotic relationship with moths and algae. Sloths are the quintessential couch potatoes of the rainforest, and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths ...

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 ...

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 ...

French photographer Emmanuel Tardy's image of a sloth clinging to a post in Costa Rica is one of the images from the 2025 ...

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 ...

While polygyny is the dominant mating system in mammals, it is increasingly recognized that promiscuity occurs in most species. Using a long-term genetic and space-use data set, we documented the ...

Many sloths captured by illegal loggers are sold at markets into the exotic pet or tourist entertainment trade, where they are forced to pose for selfies with tourists A terrified sloth has been ...

A terrified sloth has been filmed clinging to a tree as illegal loggers chop down its home, before they capture and sell it. Miraculously the sloth survived after the 100ft tree slammed to the ground ...

The sloth was caught on camera by a GoPro propped in a tree in Nicaragua. — -- A sloth spotted in the wilds of Nicaragua by an American tourist was just trying to take a nap, but first, it had to ...