Sloths, pictured, move just two metres, on average, every minute and sleep up to 20 hours a day in the trees. This gives algae enough time to grow on the animal's fur, turning it a shade of green ...

Perhaps Sloth Fur Could Save Your Life There’s a whole ecosystem going on in the fur of sloths that we could harness to fight antibiotic resistance, but progress is predictably slow.

Sloths may be hosting entire ecosystems in their thick, dense fur, and algae growth on sloths can grow so great that it tinges their fur green.

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 ...

Despite being so sedentary that algae grow on their fur, the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance's new sloth pup is anything but slow to steal hearts.

Sampling the fur of captive animals from The Sloth Sanctuary, co-author Max Chavarría and fellow University of Costa Rica researchers found a range of organisms that have the potential to keep ...

Their fur is crawling with critters Sloth fur is long and coarse, and it features grooves and cracks that make a delightful home for things like beetles, moths, fungi, and (barf) cockroaches.

Two-toed sloths (Choloepus hoffmanni) and three-toed sloths (Bradypus infuscatus) live in sympatry on Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. Activity patterns and rates of movement of six two-toed ...

The sloth’s trips seem to encourage moths that mate in the mammal’s fur and algae that thrive on moth detritus, suggests Jonathan Pauli of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

What Drives a Sloth’s Ritualistic Trek to Poop? Scientists trace the odd bathroom behavior to relationships with bacteria and moths that inhabit their fur ...

Their fur is crawling with critters Sloth fur is long and coarse, and it features grooves and cracks that make a delightful home for things like beetles, moths, fungi, and (barf) cockroaches.