Among the greatest mysteries of the tropical rainforest are the pooping habits of sloths. Really. Those furry, slow-moving tree dwellers almost never descend from the safety of the tree tops—except ...

Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha. Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha —trained to sniff out sloth poop and empower the world’s first ever sloth census!

Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

Voirin, Bryson, Kays, Roland, Wikelski, Martin, and Lowman, Margaret D. 2013. "Why Do Sloths Poop on the Ground?" In Treetops at Risk. Lowman, Margaret D., Devy ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. Sloths are some of the most interesting animals to have ever graced the earth, and yet they remain quite the unknowable little critters. The group that contains sloths, ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Coprolite is the official name for it, but what could be more weird than 10,000-year-old mummified dung from ...

Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work cut out for it. “These sloths are the lowest ...

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.