Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Sloths are cute. Take this video of baby sloths being washed: Until ...

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 ...

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Zebras, rhinos, and capybaras often have their pesky ticks and other parasites pecked off by the hungry birdies perched on their backs. Now, for the first time, researchers have observed brown jays ...

Sloths have a reputation for laziness, but these easy-going mammals could be the world's best recyclers, suggests a new study that finds the poop of three-toed sloths attracts moths that colonize ...

Sloths are famous for their exceptionally slow motor skills and petite faces that seem to beam with an almost natural smile. However, less commonly known is the unusual bathroom habit of certain sloth ...

Since they were first described by naturalists in the 1700s, sloths have been misunderstood. Early scientists described the slow-moving beasts as lazy and useless and believed the species was unlikely ...

Biologists puzzle over the fact that sloths descend from their trees to poop. The behavior might support a rare mutualism with algae and moths that live in the creatures' fur. Humans generally don’t ...