Why are sloths slow? It's in their DNA
Jun 09, 2026
Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet, but living in dense jungles has made them notoriously difficult to study. For the first time, scientists have now sequenced and analyzed the two-toed sloth genome and revealed the genetics behind its extremely slow metabolism.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-sloths-dna.html
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