The Xenarthra Shelter and Rehabilitation Center is a sanctuary for sloths and other Xenarthra species. Sloths in Suriname face threats from deforestation — including in and around the capital, ...

Armadillos, like anteaters and sloths, belong to the superorder Xenarthra, which includes insect-eating, big-clawed animals from the American tropics, says Don Moore, associate director of ...

Within Xenarthra, our data consistently united sloths (Choloepus spp.) and anteaters (Myrmecophaga, Tamandua) in the proposed suborder Pilosa 6, which was in turn the sister group to armadillos.

Xenarthra, the group to which sloths such as this belong, is one of three main groups of placental mammals that diverged rapidly, evolving in wildly different directions. Another of the three main ...