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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: PNAS - Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning. | Oct 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning. | Jul 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - How sloths got their sloth. | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Calvin Digital Commons - The Vice of Sloth: Some Historical Reections on Laziness, Eort, and Resistance to the Demands of Love (PDF). | Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - On the move: sloths and their epibionts as model mobile ecosystems. | Jun 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Why do sloths move so slowly? | Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Why are Sloths So Slow? And Other Sloth Facts. | Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Montclair State University - PRISM - Sloths. | May 11, 2023 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 02, 2021 | ||
| Changed “suborder Phyllophaga” to “order Pilosa” and noted that sloths have five upper molars and four lower molars. | Feb 09, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Corner - Sloth. | Aug 23, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun, Science and Technology for Kids! - Fun Sloth Facts for Kids. | Aug 23, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Sloths: The World's Slowest Mammals. | Aug 23, 2016 | ||
| Weights of newborn sloths of the genera Bradypus and Choloepus added. | May 31, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Sloth. | May 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Life Cycle of a Sloth. | Jun 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Animals - Sloth. | Jun 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Planet - Sloth. | Jun 12, 2013 | ||
| Added image of two-toed sloth. | May 27, 2011 | ||
| Added text mentioning the existence of a fourth three-toed sloth species (Bradypus pygmaeus). | Jan 11, 2011 | ||
| Added image of three-toed sloth. | Aug 26, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Sloth. | Apr 14, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Biography of Elisabeth Ney. | May 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Sloth. | Mar 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Xenarthra.Org. | Sep 11, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 14, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 02, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 23, 1999 |
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