Sloths, like other xenarthrans, are an extremely interesting group of mammals that, after a
long history of evolution and diversification in South America, became established on …

Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

Living sloths represent two distinct lineages of small-sized mammals that independently
evolved arboreality from terrestrial ancestors. The six extant species are the survivors of an …

Sloth morphological evolution has been widely studied qualitatively, with comparative
anatomy and morpho‐functional approaches, or through quantitative assessments of …

Modern sloths are among the more characteristic mammals of South and Central American
faunas. Recent discovery in four Paleogene, 22 Neogene, and dozens of Pleistocene …

The occasion of the Xenarthra Symposium during the ICVM 9 meeting allowed us to reflect
on the considerable advances in the knowledge of sloths made by the “X-community” over …

Sloths represent one of the most successful South American clades that reached North
America during the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). At least four families are …

Background Extant sloths present an evolutionary conundrum in that the two living genera
are superficially similar (small-bodied, folivorous, arboreal) but diverged from one another …

Background Comparative genomic data among organisms allow the reconstruction of their
phylogenies and evolutionary time scales. Molecular timings have been recently used to …

Morphological and morphometric analyses of three-toed sloths (Bradypus) from the islands
of Bocas del Toro reveal rapid differentiation of several populations during the Holocene …