Study shakes up sloth family tree

sloth  There are two families of sloth found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America: the herbivorous three-toed sloth and the omnivorous two-toed Pygmy Three-toed Sloth The Tiniest Sloth on Earth! 1 Minute Animals The Pygmy Three-toed

Now, two new analyses of ancient sloth DNA and proteins—some of which are more than 100,000 years old—are rewriting the sloth family tree The studies even Sloths are the slowest mammal on the planet But as strange as they seem the sloth is

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