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Secret to Sloths’ Slow Life May Lie in Ancient ‘Jumping Genes’

Jun 10, 2026 - 10:30
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Secret to Sloths’ Slow Life May Lie in Ancient ‘Jumping Genes’
The Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at London Zoo. Image credit: Dick Culbert / CC BY 2.0.

In new research, scientists sequenced and analyzed chromosome-level genomes of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) and the southern anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla).

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