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People often marvel at how much—and how little—intelligence is displayed in the animal kingdom. Often the subject of research ...
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Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...
Most of these extinct sloths also didn't live in trees, because they were too big. The largest sloths, in the genus Megatherium, were about the size of Asian bull elephants and weighed roughly ...
New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought ...
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 ...
SEATTLE — A 20-year-old sloth bear at the Woodland Park Zoo has died, zoo officials announced on Friday. Tasha, a female sloth bear, was euthanized after veterinarians found she had cancer ...
Take a walk downtown and you may start to spot them like a game of “Where’s Waldo?” Sloths are slowly taking over the city. There’s a backpack-sized stuffed sloth perched atop the I Wana ...