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The Lazy South American, a Story of Evolutionary Success Until Humans Arrived

Summary by efeverde.com
Madrid, 22 May (EFE).- The sloths are small herbivores of slow movements that live suspended from the branches of the trees in the jungles of South America, but it was not always so. About 15 million years ago there was a great variety of different species, some giants and others of only ten kilos. A team of scientists led by the Universities of São Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina), and in which the National Museum of Natural Sciences…
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Madrid, 22 May (EFE).- The sloths are small herbivores of slow movements that live suspended from the branches of the trees in the jungles of South America, but it was not always so. About 15 million years ago there was a great variety of different species, some giants and others of only ten kilos. A team of scientists led by the Universities of São Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina), and in which the National Museum of Natural Sciences…

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efeverde.com broke the news in on Friday, June 13, 2025.
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