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!

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The zoo is expecting a fully-furred, eyes open, tree climbing baby sloth in May or June. Courtesy of Roger Williams Park Zoo Sloths are slow-moving in all facets of life — even pregnancy. A zoo in ...